A ceasefire deal that could end more than a year of cross-border fighting between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group won backing from Israeli leaders.

Hussein, 45, told The Independent that that he and his wife Hiam, 41 packed all their belongings at the shelter that had been staying in in the Hamra neighbourhood of Beirut, and started the normally two-hour journey to the in a area south of he city of Tyre.