Under a US-brokered deal, the Lebanese army this week took over three southern villages — Froun, Srifa and Zawtar al-Gharbiya — as Israel pulls back from a "pilot zone." One handover, three outlets, three completely different stories. * Euronews wrote the ribbon-cutting: "Lebanese army begins deployment to southern regions after Israel deal." Frameworks, phases, US-mediated talks — a story where the ceasefire is a machine and everyone is politely turning the crank. Perfectly accurate. Also the version you'd write if the press release wrote itself. * France 24 caught the moment the crank jammed — Israeli troops firing near the arriving Lebanese soldiers — and filed it like this: "Lebanon's army accuses Israel of firing near troops in 'pilot zone'." Accuses. Small problem: the Israeli military confirmed it fired. Its own statement says it let off "warning shots into the air" because the Lebanese soldiers had entered an area "not part of the pilot area." When the accused party says "yes, we shot, here's why," that's not an accusation anymore — that's an event with two adjectives. "Accuses" is the verb you use when the facts are contested. Here the only thing contested was the vibe. * Then there's Al Jazeera, which put on the most boring hat in the shop — "Lebanese army enters 'pilot zone', as villagers return amid Israel deal" — and smuggled the sharpest detail of the week underneath it. The villagers coming home told AJ their villages were "never occupied by Israeli forces" in the first place. Lebanese security sources backed them up. One local council head said Israel wants to "sell us and the state empty walnut shells, calling it a pilot zone, when they never even entered it in the first place." * Sit with that. The week's big diplomatic deliverable — the first test of the whole withdrawal framework — and the people who actually live there are saying the thing being handed back was never taken. Euronews covered the ceremony. France 24 covered a dispute nobody was actually disputing. Al Jazeera checked whether the gift box was empty. * A pilot zone is supposed to be the proof of concept for the entire ceasefire. Whether you think the concept got proven this week depends entirely on which of these three tabs you had open.