STORY: Mourners exhumed the bodies of four Hezbollah fighters and two civilians on Sunday (April 26) in Tyre, Lebanon, before carrying them on a funeral procession and bury them in permanent graves in the southern town of Maaroub.

Israel's military issued new evacuation orders for southern Lebanon on Sunday, ordering residents to leave seven towns that lie beyond the "buffer zone" it occupied before a ceasefire that has failed to bring a full halt to hostilities.

A spokesperson for the Israeli military said in a statement on X that Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was violating the ceasefire and that Israel would act against it, telling people to head north and west away from the towns.

The towns are north of the Litani River and the zone in southern Lebanon occupied by Israeli troops, who have continued military operations despite the ceasefire.

Hezbollah said it would not cease its attacks on Israeli troops inside Lebanon and on towns in northern Israel as long as Israel continued its "ceasefire violations."

The U.S.-mediated ceasefire, which started on April 16 and has been extended to mid-May, has brought a significant reduction in hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, though both sides have continued to fire at each other, trading blame over breaches.

More than 2,500 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since the most recent war between Hezbollah and Israel began on March 2, days after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

SHOWS: TYRE, LEBANON (APRIL 26, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF MEN AND HEAVY MACHINERY DIGGING TEMPORARY GRAVES TO EXHUME BODIES

2. MEN REMOVING COFFIN FROM TEMPORARY GRAVE

3. MEN PLACING COFFIN ON GROUND

4. VARIOUS OF MEN WRAPPING COFFIN IN PLASTIC AND HEZBOLLAH FLAG

5. MAN PLACING PICTURE ON COFFIN

6. RELATIVES STANDING BY COFFIN

7. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) FATHER OF ALI MURAD, HEZBOLLAH FIGHTER KILLED IN SOUTHERN LEBANON, ABBAS HUSSEIN MURAD, SAYING:

"I left them at noon on the day, I told them, 'Ali, you and your mother, the situation is...you need to make a decision. Leave it to God and (inaudible) I am in Sidon, if anything happens it's ok we can come back. He said 'no, I will not leave the land until they put me under it."

8. MEN STANDING BY COFFIN

9. FLOWERS ON TEMPORARY GRAVES

MAAROUB, LEBANON (APRIL 26, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

10. VARIOUS OF FADEL MURAD, FATHER OF THREE HEZBOLLAH FIGHTERS KILLED IN SOUTHERN LEBANON, CRYING OVER COFFIN

11. VARIOUS OF COFFINS INSIDE AMBULANCES

12. VARIOUS OF MURAD STANDING

13. MOURNERS PAYING THEIR RESPECTS TO MURAD

14. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) FATHER OF THREE HEZBOLLAH FIGHTERS KILLED IN SOUTHERN LEBANON, FADEL MURAD, SAYING:

"I am the father of three martyrs, I presented three martyrs. We sacrifice ourselves for the resistance, we are staying on the line and on the river (referring to the Litani), this land is our land, we are not leaving, and no matter what we sacrifice, we will not leave this land."

15. VARIOUS OF FUNERAL PROCESSION

16. VARIOUS OF WOMEN CRYING

17. VARIOUS OF MEN CRYING OVER COFFIN

18. MOURNERS GATHERED FOR BURIAL