There is fierce dispute over whether Lebanon was included in the US-Iran ceasefire declared by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Pakistan, which mediated the truce, and Iran say it was, while the US and Israel say it was not. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh told the BBC on Thursday that Israeli strikes on Lebanon constituted a “grave violation” of the ceasefire.
But speaking in Budapest on Wednesday, US Vice-President JD Vance said “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn’t.”
In a statement addressed to residents of northern Israel on Thursday night, Benjamin Netanyahu said there was “no ceasefire in Lebanon”.
On Friday, Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said 13 state security personnel had been killed by strikes on the southern city of Nabatieh and condemned the continued attacks.
Lebanese authorities said victims of the latest Israeli attacks also included seven members of the same family in the town of Abbassieh and 11 people in Zrarieh. A medical centre in Burj Qalaway was also hit, killing two people, while a drone strike targeted an ambulance in Toul, with no casualties reported.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck about 10 rocket launchers on Thursday night which it said had fired on northern Israel. It said it was continuing to locate and destroy more.
Hezbollah has also fired more rockets at several places in Israel and also fired rockets overnight, triggering sirens across the country. One was fired at the southern coastal city of Ashdod – the furthest Hezbollah has targeted in the current fighting – but was intercepted, the IDF said.
The group said it fired rockets at Kiryat Shmona, near the Israel-Lebanon border, at 10:00 (06:00 BST) on Friday, and Misgav Am in the Upper Galilee region of northern Israel. There are no reports of casualties.
It said it was acting in response to what it described as Israel’s “violation” of the US-Iran ceasefire agreement.