At least 11 people, including two children, were killed as Israeli invading forces demolished homes in southern Lebanon and issued evacuation diktats.

Israel carried out strikes in Lebanon on Wednesday, hours after the United States and Iran reached a Pakistani-mediated two-week cease-fire.

Lebanon and Israel are set to hold the first direct diplomatic talks in decades on Tuesday in Washington following more than a month of war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group that has rocked the tiny Mediterranean country.

The Hezbollah official said the group will not accept a return to the pre-March 2 status quo, when Israel carried out near-daily strikes in Lebanon despite a ceasefire being nominally in place since the last full-blown Israel-Hezbollah war ended in November 2024.

Hezbollah launched fresh rocket barrages on northern Israel on April 15, lightly wounding a 61 year old man hit by shrapnel near Tamra, according to medics cited by The Times of Israel. The attack came amid reports that the IDF struck at least two vehicles on a coastal highway south of Beirut near Jiyeh and Saadiyat,