Inside Israel's combat zone in southern Lebanon

The BBC's Lucy Williamson travels with the Israeli military to a village destroyed during its fighting with Hezbollah.

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The ceasefire itself is already in tatters.

Israel’s ground invasion along this border last week was launched, it said, to destroy Hezbollah weapons and infrastructure in “limited, localised, targeted raids”.

Ten days on, the army was taking us to a village a couple of miles into Lebanese territory, where it had just established “some level of control”.

We were told not to reveal where it is, for military reasons, and our movements were restricted.

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