AP Photos: A look back at over a year of fighting as Israel and Hezbollah agree to a truce

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A journalist’s car burns after an Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes in the Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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A young girl looks through a bus window as her family departs the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 after the Israeli military announced it would evacuate the border city a day after three residents were injured by cross-border fire from militants in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

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Manal Jaafar, centre. reacts as she hugs a photo of her husband Rabih Maamari, a cameraman at pan-Arab TV network Al-Mayadeen who was killed by an Israeli strike, during his funeral procession in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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A cat searches for food in a house burnt by rockets fired by Hezbollah in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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A protester burns an American flag as others shout slogans against Israel and the United States during a protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Sivan, mother of Israeli soldier, Sergeant Dolev Malca, was killed during Israel’s ground operation in the Gaza Strip, screams as she salutes her son during his funeral in Shlomi, northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon, Sunday, March 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Residents rush to help injured children moments after a rocket attack hit a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Saturday, July 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Shams)

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The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept an attack from Lebanon over the Galilee region as seen from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on Aug. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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Boys salute during the funeral procession of Hezbollah members who were killed when a handheld device exploded, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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People take cover in a bomb shelter as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, in Safed, northern Israel, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Coloring pencils and books are scattered on the ground outside a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Lebanese and Palestinian men hold portraits of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, as they shout slogans during a protest in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

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A woman reads the Quran at the site of the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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People take cover next to a public bomb shelter as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, in Safed, northern Israel, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Families sleep on Beirut’s corniche after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in Beirut’s southern suburb, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Israeli shelling hit an area in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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An Israeli tank maneuvers in northern Israel near the Israel-Lebanon border, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

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People take cover on the side of the road as a siren sounds a warning of incoming missiles fired from Iran on a freeway in Shoresh, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in Israel Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.(AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

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Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Volunteers of the Russian Cultural Center entertain displaced children at a school in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in the south. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Syrians carry their luggage as they cross on foot into Syria through a crater caused by an Israeli airstrike to cut the road between the Lebanese and the Syrian checkpoints, at the Masnaa crossing, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Samer Husseini, File)

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Flames and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Tents set up as temporary shelters by displaced families fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in the south and Dahiyeh, are seen along the Ramlet al-Baida public beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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A resident of a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike returns to collect his family’s belongings at the site of Thursday’s Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Israeli soldiers are seen during a ground operation in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

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An Israeli Apache helicopter fires a missile towards southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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Mourners carry a picture of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during the funeral procession of their relatives, in Maisara near the northern coastal town of Byblos, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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People take cover as a siren warns of incoming rockets during the funeral of Alexei Popov, who was killed during a rocket attack fired from Lebanon last weekend, at the Tel Regev cemetery in the outskirts of Haifa, northern Israel, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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Ivana Skakye, 2, a Lebanese child who is suffering from third-degree burns over 40 percent of her body following an Israeli airstrike last September near their home in Deir Qanoun al Nahr, a village in south Lebanon, raises her burned arms as she lies on a bed at the Geitaoui hospital where she is receiving treatment, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet prepares to hit a building in Tayouneh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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A man looks from a damaged building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Rescue workers and people search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, early Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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An Israeli flag stands next to destroyed buildings on an area in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Smoke rising from the rubble of multistory buildings in Beirut. Rockets streaking over the blackened hills of northern Israel. People fleeing their homes, not knowing when or if they will return.

Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah reached a ceasefire Tuesday, but even if it holds, the devastation caused by 14 months of fighting will linger for years. Associated Press photographers have documented the harsh toll on both sides.

The border area is a charred wasteland, and an escalation in September brought waves of bombardment upon the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs and other areas where Hezbollah has a strong presence. Strikes also hit other areas.

Hezbollah’s rocket, drone and missile fire emptied out communities across northern Israel, and longer-range drones and missiles have hit the northern city of Haifa and the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

Israel agreed to the ceasefire after months of negotiations led by the United States and France. Hezbollah has said it accepts the proposal. It was to go into effect early Wednesday with a two-month initial halt in fighting. The deal requires Hezbollah to end its armed presence in a swath of southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops return to their side of the border.

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Civilians on both sides will continue to pay the price — in the coming hours, months and years. In Lebanon, Israeli forces have blown up entire villages. In Israel, people returning to their homes in the north for the first time in more than a year may find that they have been heavily damaged. Others may never come back, fearing future attacks.

Hezbollah began firing into northern Israel the day after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of Gaza ignited the war there. Hezbollah said it was acting in solidarity with the Palestinians and Hamas, a fellow Iran-backed militant group. Israel returned fire, and the two sides have been exchanging barrages ever since.

Israel escalated its campaign in mid-September, launching airstrikes that killed top Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and most of his deputies. It is widely thought to have been behind an attack earlier that month in which pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members exploded, killing several people, including civilians, and wounding thousands.

Israeli ground troops invaded at the start of October and have been battling Hezbollah in a belt of towns and villages near the border.

More than 3,760 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials. The bombardment has driven 1.2 million people from their homes, with many forced to camp out in public parks and beaches. Israel says it has killed more than 2,000 Hezbollah members.

Hezbollah fire has forced some 50,000 Israelis to evacuate in the country’s north. At least 75 people have been killed, more than half of them civilians. More than 50 Israeli soldiers have died in the ground offensive in Lebanon.

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