“COMPREHENSIVE CEASEFIRE”
The announcements came on the eve of a fourth round of US-hosted direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday. Military delegations held security talks last week.
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said his group’s position was “clear and stipulates a comprehensive ceasefire across all Lebanese territory”, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television channel reported.
But Hezbollah claimed multiple attacks on Israeli targets, mainly in southern Lebanon, including after Trump’s announcement.
Earlier on Monday, Tehran said a Lebanon ceasefire remained a key condition for any deal with Washington, as Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened to open “new fronts” in the war over Israel’s offensive in Lebanon.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported Israeli airstrikes on dozens of locations in the country’s south, including one that damaged a hospital in the city of Tyre.
An AFP correspondent saw heavy damage in the area and first responders putting out a blaze at the Jabal Amel hospital’s car park, which had been hit.
The health ministry shared videos showing damage inside a hospital ward, with rubble and debris on the ground, blown-out ceilings, blood on the floor and shattered glass.
Near the border, Father Antonios Farah, a priest for the village Qlayaa, where some residents are still holding out despite Israeli evacuation orders, told AFP a strike on a car had killed a man, his son and his daughter, who were students, as he drove them back from university exams in Beirut.
Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli attacks since Mar 2 have killed at least 3,433 people.
Israel’s military said two of its soldiers had been killed in southern Lebanon, bringing to 27 the number of Israeli military deaths since early March.