A man removes debris of a building that was hit Monday in an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon. AP
Four Syrian nationals and two Palestinians were killed in two strikes on the Al-Hawsh area, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported.
The agency added that Israeli airstrikes targeted several other towns in the Tyre and Nabatiyeh districts of southern Lebanon, causing additional injuries.
In the Marjayoun area, the NNA reported that the Israeli occupation army carried out three successive and powerful explosions after a night marked by repeated blasts in the region.
The explosions caused material damage to a number of properties, shattering windows and storefronts in the town of Jdeideh in Marjayoun due to the intensity of the bombardment.
Lebanese state media also reported an Israeli strike near Beirut on Wednesday, along with attacks across southern Lebanon, ahead of a second day of talks between Lebanon and Israel in Washington.
The NNA said a vehicle was targeted on the Khaldeh highway, an area located at the southern entrance to the Lebanese capital.
The latest attacks came a day after Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon killed 11 people, including a man and his two children, despite Trump's announcement that Israel and the Hezbollah group had agreed to scale back hostilities.
Trump said on Monday that he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicated with Hezbollah through mediators, adding that no Israeli troops would be “going to Beirut.”
Nevertheless, the Israeli occupation army continued its intensive bombardment of Lebanon on Tuesday.
The Israeli escalation has also complicated negotiations aimed at extending a ceasefire linked to the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, with Tehran seeking an end to the fighting in Lebanon as part of any broader agreement.
Two Iranian news agencies reported on Tuesday that Tehran had suspended communications with mediators involved in ceasefire efforts.
On Wednesday, Hezbollah announced several rocket and drone attacks targeting Israeli troops and military vehicles across southern Lebanon, including a strike on an armoured vehicle near the town of Zawtar al-Sharqiya.
"We will not accept a partial ceasefire," Mahmud Qomati, a Hezbollah senior official, told AFP on Tuesday, adding that "the Zionist enemy should know that any aggression against the suburbs could lead to a deeper and stronger response" from the group.
A new round of talks between Lebanon and Israel began in Washington on Tuesday, with Lebanese negotiators seeking a comprehensive ceasefire that would prevent future attacks. The discussions, first launched in April, mark the first direct negotiations between the two countries in more than three decades.
Hezbollah has rejected the Lebanese government’s participation in direct talks with Israel and opposes calls to surrender its weapons, arguing that disarming the group would advance Israeli plans to fully occupy Lebanon.
The talks come days after Israeli ground forces carried out their deepest incursion into Lebanon in 26 years. Israel subsequently threatened to strike Beirut’s southern suburbs, prompting panic in the capital and the evacuation of thousands of residents.
Lebanon’s political leadership has insisted that negotiations must continue despite its inability to halt the strikes and the mounting pressure from more than one million displaced people living in difficult conditions.
“Negotiations are the least costly option for Lebanon and the Lebanese people,” Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said. “They are the shortest path to ending the occupation and allowing our people in the south to return to their towns and villages.”
Since 2 March, Israeli attacks have killed 3,468 people and wounded thousands in Lebanon and displaced more than one million others.
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