ISRAEL carried out several air strikes on southern Lebanon today, killing at least four people, while the militant Hezbollah group said it fired rockets and drones, including one that crashed in northern Israel and wounded two soldiers.

Israel’s military and Hezbollah kept up their attacks despite the April 17 ceasefire. Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that the four people were killed in Israeli strikes on three southern villages.

Israel’s military urged residents of the village of Habboush near the southern city of Nabatiyeh to evacuate today, warning that those close to what it claims to be Hezbollah’s facilities would be putting their lives in danger if they stay.

Today’s exchanges came after paramedics recovered the bodies of five people, including a man and his three sons, from under rubble in the village of Kfar Rumman, also near Nabatiyeh, a day after they were killed.

National News Agency reported that the five were killed in an Israeli air strike late on Thursday in Kfar Rumman.

Israeli media reported a drone strike near Margaliot in northern Israel, saying it caused a localised fire, and that two soldiers were lightly wounded in a Hezbollah drone impact in the area.

Despite the war, residents have continued to return to homes in southern Lebanon after being displaced for weeks because of the hostilities.

One of them was Umm Ali Khodor, whose block of flats in the southern city of Tyre was damaged during the previous Israel-Hezbollah war in 2024 and again in the current conflict.

“We were displaced, we rented a house, but as you know the situation is very difficult,” Ms Khodor said. “We could not continue so we returned to our home.”

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is trying to convince the US Congress that the Iran war has already ended because of the ceasefire that began last month.

According to the 1973 War Powers Resolution, US presidents must seek formal approval from Congress before launching any overseas military action that will last more than 60 days.

On Thursday Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told the US Senate that the ceasefire effectively paused the war — yet the US is still blockading Iranian ports and  the Strait of Hormuz is still tightly controlled by Tehran.