New Israeli strikes, partly unannounced, were carried out in Lebanon today, the day after a raid that killed eleven people according to authorities, the Lebanese news agency ANI reported.

According to the Lebanese health ministry, which denounced a “massacre”, six women and a child were among the 11 people killed yesterday, Saturday, in the southern region of Nabatiya. The Israeli strike also caused nine wounded, including a child, the ministry added in a statement.

Israel continues to operate against what it claims are targets of pro-Iranian Hezbollah in Lebanon, despite a ceasefire that came into effect on April 17 and was recently extended for weeks.

The Lebanese Shiite movement also continues its attacks against Israeli targets in southern Lebanon and across the border. Today it fired rockets at Israeli soldiers operating on Lebanese soil.

A part of today’s Israeli raids, carried out in southern Lebanon and Bekaa (east), took place after Israel called for the evacuation of 11 villages in those two regions.

Arab-speaking Israeli military spokesman Avisai Adraj had said the army was “obliged to act with force” against Hezbollah “in light of the violation of the ceasefire agreement.”

A French News Agency correspondent saw clouds of thick smoke rising after strikes in Nabatiya and Zawtar el-Sharqiye in the south.

Lebanon’s Civil Defence Service had announced earlier this morning that its centre in Nabatiya had been destroyed by an overnight Israeli strike.

A French News Agency photographer saw staff from that agency retrieving material and using a stretcher to take oxygen tanks out of the wreckage of the centre.

The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request from the French Agency for comment on this strike.

Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, Israel reserves the right to act in legal defense inside the neighboring country.

Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlala, who was sanctioned by the United States this week, reiterated today that Iran is making a deal with the United States conditional on “stopping the war in Lebanon.”

“The war will not only stop in Iran, but in the whole region, especially in Lebanon,” Fadlala said.

Lebanese authorities recently began historic direct talks with Israel under the auspices of the United States. Hezbollah opposes those talks.

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