Fighting flared anew in Lebanon on Friday, with authorities reporting 47 killed in Israeli airstrikes and Israel announcing the deaths of four of its soldiers.
The violence is the worst since the sealing of a U.S.-Iran deal to halt the wider West Asia war, which was also supposed to pause fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported a fresh Israeli strike on the area of Jezzine in the south, soon after a US official said on Friday that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed on a ceasefire.
An NNA journalist also reported drones flying over the Tyre area, while an AFP correspondent heard artillery shelling in the southern town of Nabatieh.
The U.S. official told AFP on condition of anonymity that the truce was brokered by U.S. and Qatari mediators, following talks with Israel and Iran.
-AFP
