Kat Lonsdorf

Over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to, quote, vigorously attack Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

Israel then carried out widespread strikes in the south.

35-year-old Abed Amar says the Israeli military dropped pamphlets on his village of Al-Mansouri three times Sunday, warning of danger.

He and his family had returned to their home during the ceasefire.

But they just left again, he tells NPR in a voice note.

The Israeli military shelled the village overnight, he says.

It's not safe.

Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Beirut.

Hezbollah says it fired rockets into northern Israel Thursday night.

The Israeli military says all were intercepted.

That's after an Israeli airstrike killed prominent Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil while she was reporting in the south, the eighth journalist killed by Israel in Lebanon in the past two months.

The Israeli military responded to Hezbollah's attack by carrying out several more airstrikes in the south on what it says were military structures.

All of this occurred as the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors were in Washington to discuss the extension of the ceasefire.

Iran-backed Hezbollah has been opposed to direct talks, while Iran insisted on a ceasefire in Lebanon to continue peace talks with the U.S.

Kat Lonsdorff, NPR News, Beirut.

Looking south from a hill atop the village of Majdalzoun, you can see an Israeli flag waving in the wind over the neighboring Lebanese village.

Israel is still occupying a large swath of land in Lebanon's south, including dozens of towns and villages.

Hezbollah spokesperson Salman Harb tells NPR that the Iran-backed group does not agree with direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon.

But if the result of the negotiations is that Israel will withdraw from the Lebanese land, Harb says, then we're fine with that.

But on the other hand, he says, if the land remains occupied, it's our right to resist that occupation.