The state-run National News Agency (NNA) said Israeli strikes targeted more than 30 locations in the country’s south and at least one town in the country’s east.
The fresh raids came on the eve of a new round of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel in Washington brokered by the United States, as Hezbollah remains strongly opposed to the move.
The head of Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), Chadi Abdallah, said that more than 10,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed since the truce began almost four weeks ago.
In addition to launching heavy airstrikes, Israeli soldiers are operating inside an Israeli-declared “yellow line”, which runs around 10 kilometres (six miles) north of the Israel-Lebanon border, carrying out broad demolition operations there.
“We have witnessed 5,386 housing units that were completely destroyed, and 5,246 housing units damaged” since the April 17 truce, Abdallah said.
Lebanon’s health ministry said three strikes on cars along or near the coastal highway around 20 to 30 kilometres from Beirut “resulted in eight martyrs, including two children”.
The NNA said two strikes hit cars on the busy highway linking the capital to the country’s south, while a third struck nearby.
An AFP photographer saw a burnt-out car and rescuers carrying a body at one of the sites, near Jiyeh.