This photograph taken from the southern Lebanese area of Marjayoun shows smoke rising from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the village of Arnoun. AFP
US President Donald Trump announced Monday that he had brokered a deal that Lebanon said would halt Israeli attacks on Beirut and Hezbollah retaliatory attacks on Israeli territory, before expanding in scope.
Since then, Israel has said it has Washington's backing to strike Beirut's southern suburbs.
Hezbollah, for its part, said that "in response to the Israeli enemy army's violation of the ceasefire", its fighters targeted soldiers in northern Israel with a rocket barrage.
A truce to halt the fighting in Lebanon was meant to take hold on April 17, but has never been observed, as Israel has continued to violate it, as it did following a previous ceasefire reached in November 2024.
Since 2 March, Israel has killed 3,468 people and wounded thousands in Lebanon and displaced more than one million others.
Senior Hezbollah official Mahmud Qomati had told AFP on Tuesday that the resistance group would "not accept a partial ceasefire".
Despite the ongoing fighting, Israeli and Lebanese diplomats were to hold a second day of direct talks in Washington.
They are part of a fourth round of talks since the fighting erupted on March 2.
Hezbollah is sharply opposed to the direct negotiations.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he hoped the negotiations would produce "an action plan".
Speaking ahead of the talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that he and Trump shared the goal "to disarm Hezbollah and... to demilitarise Lebanon".
Paramedics
Among the Israeli strikes on Wednesday was one targeting a car on the main highway out of the capital, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) said.
The NNA also reported strikes on more than 20 locations in the south.
The health ministry said an Israeli attack on Al-Hawsh near the city of Tyre killed four Syrians and two Palestinians.
The Lebanese health ministry said an Israeli strike elsewhere in the south targeted an ambulance, killing two paramedics from the Risala Scouts Association, which is affiliated with the Amal movement.
The ministry circulated images of a badly damaged ambulance, with medical masks spilling out of the vehicle and scattered on the road.
Israel has killed at least 130 emergency and health workers since the new attacks began, and damaged 17 hospitals.
Lebanon's army said a soldier was also killed in an Israeli strike, while an officer and a soldier were wounded in a separate attack on a military vehicle.
The force denounced Israel's "deliberate targeting of army personnel, vehicles and positions".
* This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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