Hezbollah has vowed to continue resisting Israel and is monitoring the Israeli army’s withdrawal from south Lebanon “with [our] hands on the trigger”, the militia said in its first comments since a ceasefire came into effect on Wednesday.
A tense calm has descended on southern Lebanon – despite Israeli warplanes firing on what the military claimed was a rocket storage facility – but in the Gaza Strip Israel appears to have stepped up its campaign against the Palestinian group Hamas. At least 21 people were killed in airstrikes in the past 24 hours, hospital officials said, and Israeli ground forces are pushing deeper into the north and south of the enclave.
