Is our home safe? Is it rubble? For displaced Lebanese, anguished uncertainty.

Displaced by war but hungry for home, Faiz Hilal’s family squeezed into their decades-old car and drove from relative safety in eastern Lebanon to their apartment near the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre – only to find their street wrecked by Israeli airstrikes.They were undeterred by the piles of rubble and mangled metal, and cleared a dust-free path through the ground-floor car park. They hung their washing lines, and made one room habitable for their family of six.Buoyed by hope that a fragile ceasefire will hold in Lebanon between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, the Hilal family is making a calculated gamble faced by many of the 1.2 million Lebanese residents forced from their homes by two months of war. Why We Wrote This Lebanese people displaced by war have been on an emotional roller coaster. A ceasefire has been extended, but fighting in the south hasn’t ended. Even as families yearning for home prepare to return, despite the uncertainty, they are warned not to take the risk. In the wide spectrum of circumstances of Lebanon’s displaced, each family or individual must decide whether the risks of returning – whether their home still exists, and is accessible –