Israel said it struck targets in Lebanon on Monday evening after vowing to retaliate for an attack by Hezbollah on a military post, with both sides accusing each other of violating last week's ceasefire. At least nine people were killed by Israeli strikes on two southern Lebanese villages, according to the country's public health ministry.

Hezbollah fired Monday evening at an Israeli Army post in a south Lebanon border area in a first such response to alleged repeated Israeli violations of a cease-fire agreement achieved last week.