Exhausted Lebanese venture home as fighting ends

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TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) - Exhausted Lebanese displaced by a month of bombing left their shelters to stream onto roads in the hope of finding homes intact as Israel halted attacks after a final barrage of raids.

Residents of the port city of Tyre ventured out of shelters as soon as calm prevailed after a UN-brokered ceasefire deal aimed at ending the month-long war in Lebanon entered into force at 0500 GMT.

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Israel said Monday it would maintain its air and sea blockade of Lebanon despite a ceasefire on the ground to end more than a month of fighting.

"The maritime and aerial blockade will be kept in place until a mechanism is put in place to control smuggling of arms" to Hezbollah, a military source said.

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