Hezbollah claimed several attacks late Monday on Israeli targets in south Lebanon while Lebanese state media reported Israeli strikes on the south, hours after US President Donald Trump announced a halt to fighting.Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported Israeli strikes on several southern areas including in the villages of Marwaniyeh, Sidiqine, Yater and Mansouri, and also said "a very violent detonation" rocked the town of Debbine.
In one statement, Hezbollah said that in the town of Hadatha, its fighters targeted a Merkava tank with an attack drone, and Israeli troops with "barrages of rockets and artillery shelling", adding in another statement that fighters subsequently attacked two Israeli tanks in the same area.
In a third statement, which like the others also indicated an attack time of after 11:00 pm (2000 GMT), Hezbollah said its fighters targeted a Merkava tank in the town of Bayada "with a guided missile".
Trump said on social media that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had promised not to send troops to Beirut's southern suburbs as threatened, while Hezbollah had agreed that "all shooting will stop".
