At least eight people, including a dentist and his two children, were killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon as the Jewish state continued to violate a fragile cease-fire Tuesday.
The dentist, his son and daughter were killed in an Israeli drone strike on their car while they were traveling on the Nabatieh-Khardali road in southern Lebanon, the state news agency NNA said.
Another drone attack killed two Syrian workers inside a plant nursery where they worked in the town of Jebchit.
Two more people were killed in drone strikes on a motorcycle in Toul and a car in Ansar, the agency said.
An Israeli drone also hit a car at the Harouf-Toul roundabout, killing the driver.
Warplanes also launched an airstrike on a Lebanese Civil Defense center on the Masil road in the town of Kfar Sir, destroying the facility. The center had been evacuated several days earlier, the NNA added.
Separately, Israeli aircraft carried out a dawn airstrike on the town of Mansouri in the Tyre district, coinciding with artillery shelling in the area.
Attacks also hit a house in Tyre's al-Hosh, destroying it and damaging several nearby homes. Two wounded people were retrieved from the rubble and were hospitalized.
Meanwhile, NNA said the death toll from Monday’s strike on Jabal Amel Hospital in Tyre has risen to four, with 50 others injured.
The attack caused significant damage to hospital wards, the parking garage and nearby buildings.
The latest casualties came after U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to halt attacks against each other following contacts through intermediaries.
Trump said he had held contacts through intermediaries with both sides and received assurances that "all shooting will stop."
The developments followed a dramatic escalation in violence that saw Israeli troops stage their deepest invasion into Lebanon in two decades, conducting waves of heavy bombardment and threatening to strike the south Beirut suburbs.
As the violence threatened to scupper a cease-fire in the wider Middle East war between the U.S. and Iran, 24-year-old south Beirut resident Hadi told AFP he had hoped for some stability, but "that feeling did not last long."
