Israeli strikes targeted Thursday Sinay, Teffahta, Tebna, Froun, Siddiqine, Haddatha, Zrarieh, Brayke’, Kfarmelki, Qsaybeh, Jarjou’, Kfarseer, Kafra, Arnoun-Shqif, al-Mansouri, Srifa and other villages and towns in south Lebanon, despite a ceasefire and direct Lebanese-Israeli talks scheduled for Thursday and Friday in Washington.

In the east of the country, strikes hit Yohmor, Sohmor, Lebbaya, and Ein el-Tineh.

The Israeli army had ordered the residents of Lebeya, Sohmor, Tefahta, Kfarmelki, Yohmor, Ein al-Tineh, Houmin al-Fawqa, and Mazraat Sinay to evacuate ahead of imminent strikes.

Hezbollah, for its part, targeted Israeli bases, troops, and equipment in the southern border towns of Blat, al-Bayyada, Kfarkela, and Deir Seryan.

Earlier on Thursday, a Hezbollah drone strike injured several Israeli civilians on Thursday in Ras al-Naqoura, near the border with Lebanon.