Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said the Lebanese government "is moving forward with steady steps and will not back down from any decision it takes to rescue the country from the crises it is floundering in."

In remarks published Wednesday in the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Anbaa, Salam reiterated his commitment to the Taif Accord and the ministerial statement.

The death toll of an Israeli airstrike on the village of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr rose Wednesday to 12, including four women and three children of the same family and a Syrian national.

Three were wounded, including a child.

An Israeli strike on several houses in the southern town of Dweir killed five people Wednesday and wounded two others.

Two other people were killed in a strike on Tebnine, and several were wounded across south Lebanon, despite the truce.

The Israeli army struck overnight into Wednesday several southern towns and villages including Jebshit, Habboush, Kherbet Selem, Kafra, and Toura, as Hezbollah reported clashes with Israeli troops in southern Lebanon despite a truce.

Hezbollah said its fighters "clashed.. with a force of the Israeli enemy army that tried to advance towards the vicinity of the town square of Haddatha," and targeted soldiers and equipment in the border towns of Bayyada and Rshaf.

The continued Israeli escalation in southern Lebanon will jeopardize the negotiations with Israel, a Lebanese official warned on Tuesday.

"The continued violations will either lead to us not participating in the negotiations or to our participation with the sole condition of a ceasefire," the official told Al-Jazeera.

MP Mohammad Raad has lamented that "the reality confirmed by the rounds of direct negotiations between Lebanon and the enemy (Israel) is that the ruling authorities have practically adopted the occupation's narrative against the resistance."

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has stated that there is "increased American involvement in the efforts to solidify the ceasefire."

Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah warned Tuesday that his group would fight any army unit formed by the U.S. and Israel to counter the resistance.

"If Israel and the U.S. manage to form a collaborator army to fight the Resistance, we will fight it just like we fight Israel," Fadlallah said in a press conference, as he warned against free "gifts" to the U.S.

At least six people were killed Tuesday and 3 others wounded in strikes on south Lebanon.

A strike on a home in Kfarsir killed four people and wounded two, while a separate strike targeting a car in Harouf killed one person and wounded another.

Israeli strikes have killed more than 3,000 people in Lebanon since the start of the war between Hezbollah and Israel on March 2, the health ministry said on Monday, after an April 17 ceasefire failed to stop the fighting.