Armed conflicts in Lebanon

An Israeli strike targeted the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon on Friday while artillery shelled the outskirts of Zawtar al-Sharqiyeh, Naharnet reported. Israeli forces set forests ablaze in al-Qantara and carried out detonations in al-Khiam overnight. Drones were flying over Beirut and its southern suburbs.

Israeli strikes targeted Kfartebnit and al-Qantara in southern Lebanon on Thursday while artillery shelled al-Mansouri, Wadi Zebqine and Mazraat Bouyout al-Siyyad, Naharnet reported. Israeli forces carried out detonations in Bani Hayyan and Markaba and advanced toward al-Hebbarieh.

The first day of US-sponsored technical military talks between Lebanon and Israel ended at US Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida, after about six hours, diplomatic sources told Anadolu. The talks, to resume on Wednesday, aim to review implementation of the framework agreement and discuss pilot areas in southern Lebanon from which Israel is to withdraw.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said any rocket or drone fire at Israel would prompt strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, ruled out withdrawing from southern Lebanon until Hezbollah was disarmed throughout the country, and said Israeli forces had demolished more than 60 Lebanese villages containing 23,000 homes, Anadolu reported.

A Lebanese judge ordered two Hezbollah officials to appear for questioning over their alleged involvement in a delivery of half a ton of explosives seized on 8 October at a checkpoint in Dahr al-Baidar, a judicial official told AFP. Security agencies were working to locate them, the official said.

Two Israeli strikes targeted the southern town of Kfartebnit on Tuesday, while artillery shelled al-Mansouri and Wadi Zebqine overnight and Israeli forces carried out a massive detonation in al-Khiam, Naharnet reported.

The Lebanese Army deployed in and around Dahieh after gunmen affiliated with Hezbollah briefly surrounded security forces carrying out a judicial raid on a warehouse on Dahieh's edge, Naharnet reported. Hezbollah supporters also protested overnight in Beirut and blocked a key road over the seizure of an explosives truck.

Hezbollah claimed ownership of a vehicle carrying approximately 500kg of explosives seized by the Lebanese army at Dahr Al Baidar, saying its contents were intended to 'confront the Israeli occupation.' Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said there would be 'no leniency' in the investigation.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, on a visit to occupied south Lebanon, said Israel would not withdraw from its security zones and, if Hezbollah joined an Iranian attack on Israel, would extend the zone to Nabatieh and the Litani River and evacuate Shiites north to the Awali and Zahrani rivers, displacing more than one million people.

Two people, including a 4-year-old child, were injured in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Haddatha in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, the National News Agency said, as Israeli artillery also shelled Mansouri and Majdal Zoun.

An explosion near Neot Mordechai in northern Israel killed a 15-year-old on a school trip and injured 19 others, according to preliminary official tallies. The Israeli military said an initial review showed it was likely caused by an unexploded munition allegedly fired by Hezbollah, AFP reported.

Two men were killed during the olive harvest in Bint Jbeil district, one by Israeli shelling on the outskirts of Yater and the other in Froun by a munition left from earlier fighting, the National News Agency reported. The Lebanese army blamed Israeli tank fire.

Israeli warplanes struck Kfar Tebnit in the Nabatieh district and Mansouri in the Tyre district, and artillery shelling hit Majdal Zoun, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

An Israeli drone strike on a car in Hermel district, near the Syrian border, wounded six people, five of them Syrian nationals, Lebanon's health ministry said. The Israeli military said it had struck a Syrian it accused of planning attacks on Israeli forces in southern Syria under the direction of the Iranian regime.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in Beirut that the European Union would establish a mission to train and advise the Lebanese army on territorial control, border security and internal security, and that it would not replace the UN peacekeeping mission in south Lebanon, whose mandate expires at the end of the year.

The Israeli military said its air force had hit more than 370 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon over the past month.

Lebanon's prime minister, Nawaf Salam, met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington as talks on the June framework stalled: Lebanon wants Israeli withdrawal first, Israel wants Hezbollah disarmed first.

The Lebanese army deployed to Zawtar al-Gharbiya, the first 'pilot zone' under the June framework. Residents and Lebanese security sources said Israeli forces had never occupied the villages in the plan.

The United States, Israel and Lebanon signed a framework to end the conflict, setting out the disarmament of non-state armed groups and a sequenced Israeli redeployment.

In US-facilitated talks in Washington, Israeli and Lebanese envoys agreed to implement a ceasefire conditional on a complete halt to Hezbollah fire. Hezbollah, which was not part of the talks, rejected it.

President Trump announced a 10-day truce between Israel and Lebanon, which he said included Hezbollah. Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israeli forces would remain in an extensive security zone in Lebanon.

President Trump said Lebanon was not included in the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, as Israeli strikes on Lebanon continued.

Israel's defence minister said Israel would control a large buffer zone in southern Lebanon, after bridges over the Litani river were destroyed.

A cessation of hostilities brokered by the United States and France took effect.

Israel's military said it had killed Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs.