"You are forbidden to move towards villages that the IDF has requested to be evacuated", warns the Israeli military's spokesperson Avichay Adraee in Arabic in a post on X, shortly after the agreement came into effect.
The post is addressed to the Lebanese population and also emphasizes that Israeli troops will continue to remain in southern Lebanon, which Israel claims is in accordance with the agreement.
Just an hour before the ceasefire came into effect, Beirut was attacked. Shortly before, the Israeli military had urged residents in several areas of the city to leave their homes ahead of air strikes.
Intensive attacks
The evacuation warnings followed a wave of intense Israeli attacks on Lebanon's capital on Tuesday evening. 42 people are reported to have been killed in the attacks on Lebanon on Tuesday, according to local authorities.
The attacks occurred after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had given a speech in which he said he would ask his ministers to approve a ceasefire agreement. Iran-backed Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel, also in the midst of news that a ceasefire was imminent.
On Tuesday evening, two border crossings between Lebanon and Syria were also attacked by Israel, according to Syrian state media. Early on Wednesday morning, the Syrian Foreign Ministry reported that six people were killed in the attacks.
Thousands of people killed
The USA has been the main party responsible for drafting the ceasefire proposal. Israel demands that the USA guarantees Lebanon's commitments - otherwise, Israel reserves the right to attack anyway, which Netanyahu mentioned in his speech. This right has been rejected by Lebanon and Hezbollah.
More than 3,800 people have been killed in Lebanon since last October, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry's statement on Tuesday. It was then that Hamas carried out its terrorist attack on Israel from Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon expressed its support for Hamas. About 1,200 people were killed in Israel in the terrorist attack, most of them civilians, and several hundred were taken hostage and brought to Gaza.
At the same time, figures from the UN show that nearly 900,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Lebanon during the escalated war between Hezbollah and Israel.
On the Israeli side, at least 82 soldiers and 47 civilians have been killed in connection with the fighting with Hezbollah. In September, Israel announced that it had expanded its war goals to also include a safe return for the approximately 60,000 people in northern Israel who were forced to evacuate their homes due to shelling from Hezbollah.
The conditions for a ceasefire in Lebanon are not yet fully settled, but the first phase is largely clear. It consists of a two-month transition period. During the 60 days, the Israeli military will leave southern Lebanon. Hezbollah will move all its heavy weapons north of the Litani River.
A committee led by the USA will monitor that the parties do what they are supposed to do. If Lebanon and others do not remove acute threats against Israel, there are reservations about Israel's right to take military action.
Gradually during the two-month period, hundreds of thousands of evacuated civilians will also be able to start returning to their homes in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
