The group, comprising the United States, France, the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon known as UNIFIL, the Lebanese army, and the Israeli army met to coordinate efforts supporting the 27 November ceasefire, the US Embassy in Beirut said.

Hosted by UNIFIL and chaired by the US with France assisting, the meeting focused on advancing the implementation of the US-brokered ceasefire and UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which aims to maintain stability along the Lebanon-Israel border, the embassy said as reported by AP.

“This mechanism will meet regularly and coordinate closely to advance implementation of the ceasefire agreement and UNSCR 1701,” the US Embassy said.

The US military announced in late November that Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers and envoy Amos Hochstein would co-chair the committee temporarily, with Hochstein serving until a permanent civilian co-chair is appointed.

Lebanon's army said one person was killed and four soldiers wounded Monday in an Israeli strike in the country's south, in another Israeli breach of the ceasefire with Hezbollah which came into force last month.

As part of the deal, Israeli troops will remain in southern Lebanon for 60 days while the Lebanese army deploys to the area.

Under the agreement, based on a UN Security Council resolution that ended the last Israel-Hezbollah war, peacekeepers and the Lebanese army should be the only armed groups in the south.

"The Israeli enemy targeted a car near the Saf al-Hawa/Bint Jbeil military checkpoint, killing a citizen and lightly wounding four soldiers," the Lebanese army said in a statement.

The official National News Agency reported that "enemy aircraft struck a car on the Saf al-Hawa road in Bint Jbeil near an army checkpoint, killing the driver, a civilian."

Last Monday, Israeli strikes on south Lebanon killed 11 people, according to the country's health ministry, shortly after Hezbollah claimed its first retaliatory attack on an Israeli position since the truce began.

Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said Wednesday the death toll in Lebanon in more than a year of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon had reached 4,047 people, most of them since a September escalation, including 316 children.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said Monday that four soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, the first deaths announced in the area since the start of the ceasefire with Hezbollah nearly two weeks ago.

The four reservists, all from the same battalion, "fell in combat" on Sunday, the military said without giving further details.

The deaths bring to 56 the number of Israeli soldiers killed in southern Lebanon since the military launched a ground offensive in late September.