Israel launched a series of strikes on southern Lebanon that killed at least nine people on Tuesday, while Hezbollah claimed new attacks on Israeli troops, only hours after US President Donald Trump announced that the two sides had agreed to stop fighting.
Strikes continued overnight in southern Lebanon despite a phone call between Mr Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which the two leaders reportedly agreed that Hezbollah and the Israeli army would stop “shooting at each other”.
The Lebanese embassy in Washington issued a statement saying that Hezbollah had confirmed a “mutual halt of attacks” after a call between Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
A strike on Marwaniyeh killed six people and wounded four others. Two people were killed in a drone strike on their vehicle in Briqaa, and a Syrian man was killed in a strike near a hospital in the village of Toul.
