Over 50 Hezbollah projectiles fired at 'Israeli' forces overnight, official told Reuters
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- Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said the group has the right to respond to 'Israeli' attacks despite a newly announced ceasefire.
- An 'Israeli' military official said Hezbollah fired over 50 projectiles at 'Israeli' forces in southern Lebanon overnight.
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said on Saturday that his group had the right to respond to 'Israeli' attacks, as Israel kept up strikes on Lebanon despite a ceasefire announced a day earlier.
“There is talk of a ceasefire. For us, what concerns us is that the enemy fully and comprehensively respects the ceasefire, and doesn't attempt to attack our country and villages or seek to occupy any new position,” Fadlallah said in a statement.
He added that “the resistance has the full right to confront this enemy when it attacks us, as it is the aggressor and the occupier”.
An 'Israeli' military official told Reuters on Saturday that Hezbollah fired more than 50 projectiles at 'Israeli' forces in southern Lebanon overnight, in response to 'Israeli' strikes that continued hours after a US-announced ceasefire between 'Israel' and the group was said to have taken effect.
“Overnight, the Hezbollah terrorist organisation launched more than 50 projectiles at Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. Following the attacks, the IDF has been striking Hezbollah terrorist targets in southern Lebanon,” the official claimed.
Today casualties
At least five people were killed in 'Israeli' air strikes and drone attacks in southern Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanese state media reported.
State news agency NNA said 'Israeli' warplanes and drones carried out a series of strikes across the Nabatieh area overnight and into Saturday morning, destroying residential buildings and homes, while 'Israeli' artillery shelled Nabatieh and its outskirts before dawn.
Three people were killed in strikes on the town of Arab Salim, while one person was killed in Deir Zahrani, and another after “an enemy drone launched a strike on a motorbike” at the entrance of the town of Dweir, NNA said.
'Israel' and Hezbollah agreed to the ceasefire on Friday following an escalation in hostilities in Lebanon, according to a US official.
A senior 'Israeli' official and two Hezbollah sources confirmed the agreement to Reuters. The US official said the truce was to begin at 4 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Friday.
