Israel targets Kherbet Selem and Touline, Hezbollah fires rockets at north Israel

The Israeli army targeted Friday the southern villages of Touline and Kherbet Selem despite residents returning home to their southern towns and villages after a 3-week extension of the ceasefire.

Israeli troops were also detonating houses in Khiam, a border town in a "buffer zone" that Israel is occupying in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah said on Thursday it fired rockets at northern Israel in response to the country's ceasefire "violations", as Lebanon and Israel's U.S. ambassadors were set to meet in Washington.

"In defense of Lebanon and its people, and in response to the Israeli enemy's violation of the ceasefire and its targeting of the town of Yater in southern Lebanon," Hezbollah "targeted the Shtula settlement with a rocket salvo", the group said in a statement.

The Israeli military said "several launches that crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory were identified" and intercepted.

An Israeli strike on Shoukine had killed three people on Thursday.

In a statement, the ministry said that "an Israeli airstrike on the Shoukine road in the Nabatieh district," more than 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Israel, killed three people while artillery shelling of the village of Yater wounded two people, including a child.

The attacks come shortly before a second meeting between Lebanon and Israel's U.S. ambassadors in Washington, where Israel and Lebanon agreed to extend a ceasefire by three weeks.