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Israeli strikes targeted eastern and southern Lebanon on Sunday despite a fragile cease-fire, Lebanese state media reported, as a Hezbollah lawmaker criticized Lebanon’s negotiations with Israel as a “dead-end.”
Two Israeli strikes hit the town of Sohmor in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, the state-run National News Agency reported. Other strikes were also reported across southern Lebanon.
The latest attacks came after envoys from Israel and Lebanon held a third round of negotiations in Washington and agreed to extend the ceasefire.
Israeli attacks since the start of the war have killed more than 2,900 people in Lebanon, including more than 400 since the cease-fire began on April 17, according to Lebanese authorities.
Despite the cease-fire extension, fighting has continued, with Israeli strikes and Hezbollah attacks on Israeli forces.
Israel sent ground forces into southern Lebanon during the latest war and continues to occupy territory near the border between the two countries.
Iran-backed Hezbollah has repeatedly denounced talks with Israel.
“The direct negotiations that the authorities in Lebanon have conducted with the Israeli enemy have... led them down a dead-end path that will result in nothing but one concession after another,” Hezbollah lawmaker Hussein Hajj Hassan said Sunday.
“Neither they nor anyone else will be able to carry out what the enemy wants, especially when it comes to the issue of disarming the resistance,” he said.
Hajj Hassan said the authorities were bringing the country to “very big predicaments.”
On Saturday, Hezbollah said it had struck a military target in northern Israel, after earlier announcing several operations against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.
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