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Image source, NurPhoto via Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\nA ceasefire, scheduled talks, continuing strikes: BBC reports across the Middle Eastpublished at 12:39 BST<\/p>\n
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Image source, NurPhoto via Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n
In Tehran, Iran, buildings have been reduced to rubble during the conflict<\/p>\n
A ceasefire between Iran and the US is in place and peace talks are expected this weekend, but strikes continue between Hezbollah and Israel.<\/p>\n
Throughout the latest developments, the BBC has been speaking to those affected and reporting across the region:<\/p>\n
In Iran, where fighting has been paused for two weeks, 15-year-old Ali – not his real name – tells the BBC’s Fergal Keane that due to the war “even the smallest sound causes my brain to react very badly”.<\/p>\n
“I should be able to study, to work and become an independent person in the future. [I should] not be constantly worrying about politics, living in stress, thinking about bombs falling\u2026[with] endless fears,” he says. <\/p>\n
In Lebanon, war rages on. The guns were supposed to have fallen silent, writes the BBC’s Hugo Bachega<\/a>, but just as the region was breathing a sigh of relief, Israeli jets conducted a 10-minute blitz across Lebanon.<\/p>\n He’s been reporting on the ground in the Lebanese capital Beirut, in the video below you can watch his latest report from the site of an Israeli airstrike:<\/p>\n Media caption, <\/p>\n BBC at the site of Israeli air strikes in Beirut<\/p>\n In Israel, the BBC’s Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reported from the scene of a strike in Haifa, northern Israel before the conditional ceasefire was agreed. Watch Lucy’s report below.<\/p>\n