Israel hit parts of southern Lebanon Wednesday, with many of the strikes targeting areas near the coastal city of Tyre, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported.
A residential building was struck at dawn, killing four people in Tyre, where a drone strike targeted a car, although it wasn’t clear who the intended target was in the vehicle.
Elsewhere, Israel hit a post of the Islamic Health Committee paramedics, one of various social programs operated by militant group Hezbollah, NNA reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Lebanon and Israel continue to trade fire because Lebanon isn’t part of the two-week ceasefire agreed by Washington and Tehran. The statement contradicted information released by Pakistan, which served as a mediator for the agreement.
Lebanon’s army warned displaced people against returning to the country’s south on Wednesday, with Israel still launching attacks, French news agency AFP reported.
Pro-Iran armed factions in Iraq announced on Wednesday a two-week halt to their attacks on “enemy bases” in the region after the start of a ceasefire between the United States and Iran.
“The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announces the suspension of its operations in Iraq and the region for two weeks,” the alliance said in a short statement on Telegram.
Iraq later reopened its airspace, which it had closed due to the war, its state news agency said.
It will take months for jet fuel supplies and prices to normalize even if the Strait of Hormuz remains open, the director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Wednesday.
“It will still take a period of months to get back to where supply needs to be given the disruption to the refining capacity in the Middle East,” Willie Walsh told reporters. “I don’t think it’s going to happen in weeks.”