Lebanese mother-of-two Hala Farah is collecting photos and videos to preserve the memory of her hometown which, like many others along the southern border, has been completely destroyed by Israeli forces.

Testimony from residents and officials, as well as satellite images and photographs taken by AFP journalists on both sides of the border, show widespread destruction in dozens of Lebanese towns and villages since the start of the Israel-Hezbollah war on March 2.

An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed six people on Friday, including two rescuers and a child, the Lebanese health ministry said, despite a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

In a statement, the ministry said that "six people were martyred" including two rescuers from the Risala Scouts association, one of them also working as a freelance photographer, and a Syrian girl in a strike on Deir Qanoun al-Nahr village. The association is linked with the Hezbollah-allied Amal movement.

Iran's foreign ministry on Friday condemned what it called "illegal" U.S. sanctions on Tehran's ambassador-designate to Lebanon, according to a ministry statement.

The ministry "strongly condemned the illegal and unjustified action by the U.S. Treasury Department in sanctioning Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani, Iran's designated ambassador to Beirut," the statement said.

The United States on Thursday sanctioned Hezbollah MPs Hassan Fadlallah, Hussein al-Hajj Hassan and Ibrahim al-Moussawi; Hezbollah official and ex-minister Mohammad Fneish, Amal Movement security officials Ahmad Baalbaki and Ali Safawi, Lebanese Army intelligence officer Samer Hamadi and General Security officer Khattar Nassereddine, and Iranian Ambassador-designate to Lebanon Mohammad Reza Sheibani, accusing them of enabling Hezbollah.

Nine people were wounded in an Israeli strike on Thursday that damaged a hospital in the country's south, where Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire despite a ceasefire.

In a statement, the Lebanese health ministry strongly denounced the strike, which "inflicted serious damage on the Tibnin public hospital" and left "nine people wounded, including seven members of the hospital staff, five of them women".

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has said that Lebanon should devise a national security strategy document and Hezbollah's weapons "should be part of it."

Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc urged on Thursday Arab and foreign embassies to inform their governments of the daily Israeli aggressions, over the course of fifteen months, since a truce was reached in November 2024.

"That agreement obligated both sides to cease all forms of hostilities and mandated the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the territories it occupied in southern Lebanon. While Lebanon has strictly adhered to this agreement, the Israeli side has continued its daily aggressions," the letter said.

President Joseph Aoun is dismayed about the U.S. backing down on their promise to pressure Israel into a ceasefire, al-Binaa newspaper said Thursday.

The daily reported that Aoun told U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa that the Israeli violations are "embarrassing" to him before the Lebanese people and that a real truce and withdrawal are needed in order for negotiations to resume smoothly.

The Lebanese military delegation to the May 29 talks with Israel at the Pentagon is expected to be formed within the next two days, although its composition will remain confidential for now, sources told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper.

A draft agreement, resembling a "declaration of intent" between Lebanon and Israel, is circulating in political and diplomatic circles,

an informed diplomatic source said.