Smoke rises following an Israeli strike on the southern village of Nabatieh. AFP
"The Israeli enemy strike on the town of Sir al-Gharbiyeh in the Nabatieh district resulted in a massacre whose final toll is 11 dead including a child and six women, and nine wounded including four children and a woman," Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said in a statement regarding Saturday's casualties.
Lebanon's official National News Agency reported Israeli strikes on multiple locations in south and east Lebanon on Sunday, in some cases causing casualties.
Some of the raids came before the Israeli military's displacement orders, which covered 10 villages in the south and the eastern Bekaa valley.
An AFP correspondent saw large clouds of smoke rising after strikes on the south's Nabatieh and Zawtar Al-Sharqiyah.
Lebanon's civil defence agency said early on Sunday that its regional facility in Nabatieh had been destroyed by an overnight Israeli strike.
An AFP photographer saw Lebanese civil defence personnel recovering equipment and using a stretcher to remove oxygen bottles from the rubble.
Israel's military has continued to strike despite a ceasefire in its war on Lebanon that began on 17 April and that was recently extended for several weeks.
Hezbollah has also maintained attacks on Israeli targets in southern Lebanon and across the border, including firing rockets on Sunday at Israeli troops occupying Lebanese territory.
Under the terms of the US-brokered ceasefire, Israel reserved the right to act against what it deemed "planned or imminent attacks."
However, data shows the Israeli military systematically used this clause to continue its attacks on civilians. According to Lebanon's health ministry, at least 400 people have been killed in Lebanon since the mid-April ceasefire went into effect.
Israeli troops who invaded Lebanon are also launching attacks and levelling entire towns inside an Israeli-declared "yellow line" running around 10 kilometres (six miles) deep along Lebanon's southern border.
Since Israel's war on Lebanon began on 2 March, Israeli attacks have killed 3,123 people and wounded 9,506 others, according to health ministry.
Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on 2 March after US-Israeli strikes killed Iran's supreme leader, but the escalation followed 15 months of Israeli violations of a previous November 2024 ceasefire that killed hundreds of Lebanese civilians and came after Israel had already finalized plans for a wider Lebanon operation, according to reports from January.
The latest Israeli ceasefire violations come as Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah, who the US sanctioned this week, said Sunday that "major transformations are taking place in the region."
Iran "has made its agreement with the United States conditional on stopping the war in Lebanon," he noted, according to a statement.
On Saturday, Hezbollah said its chief Naim Qassem had received a message from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying Iran's latest proposal through Pakistani mediators aimed at ending the regional war emphasized "the demand to include Lebanon" in the broader ceasefire.
Fadlallah said "the war will not just stop in Iran, but across the whole region, particularly in Lebanon," urging Lebanese authorities to "take advantage of this regional umbrella... which will have repercussions on us."
Lebanese authorities recently began landmark direct talks with Israel under US auspices and have insisted the discussions must be independent from the Iran-US negotiations.
* This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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