Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli strikes on several locations in the eastern Bekaa Valley killed 22 people on Thursday, with state media reporting four family members killed in one village.

"Israeli enemy" strikes on five areas in the Baalbek region killed a total of 22 people, the ministry said in separate statements, with the National News Agency reporting that a strike on the village of Maqneh killed at least four members of the same family.

Hezbollah on Thursday claimed seven attacks on Israeli soldiers in and near south Lebanon’s Khiam, after official media said Israel troops were dynamiting homes and buildings in the town.

In seven separate statements, Hezbollah said its fighters targeted Israeli troops in and near Khiam, including with artillery, rockets and drones, as Lebanon’s National News Agency said "the enemy army" was "blowing up homes and residential buildings during its incursion into the town".

Israel’s failure to tamp down Hezbollah’s short-range rocket threat has put pressure on its government to embrace a cease-fire, the New York Times has reported.

Stuck in no man's land on the war-hit Lebanon-Syria border, cab driver Fadi Slika now scrapes a living ferrying passengers between two deep craters left by Israeli air strikes.

Hezbollah claimed a series of attacks on Israeli troops in south Lebanon and on military facilities across the border including a drone attack on the Haifa naval base, which it has repeatedly claimed strikes against.

The group also said its fighters "targeted... for the first time, the Hatzor air base" near the southern city of Ashdod, around 150 kilometers from Lebanon's southern border with Israel, "with a missile salvo".

In parallel with the meetings that U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein held in Tel Aviv on Thursday, the Israeli army command informed the political leadership that it supports a ceasefire in Lebanon.

After two meetings with Speaker Nabih Berri and a night of intensive discussions at the U.S. embassy between Speaker Nabih Berri’s aide Ali Hamdan and members of the U.S. delegation, U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein announced that the reached agreements should be acceptable to Israel, Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.

Israeli first responders said a man was killed on Thursday after rocket fire from Lebanon hit the northern Galilee region.

"Emergency medical technicians and paramedics have reported a 30-year-old male with no signs of life and have declared him deceased," the Magen David Adom emergency medical service said.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said the atmosphere was “more positive” after his second meeting with U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein on Wednesday and that Lebanon “did what it should do” to secure the success of the agreement.

Successive rounds of Israeli strikes hit southern Beirut Thursday after Israeli military evacuation warnings, while Hezbollah claimed a series of attacks including on a base near south Israel's Ashdod, its deepest so far.

Lebanon's official National News Agency reported three raids "within the third round of strikes on the southern suburbs today", saying they hit the Haret Hreik and Hadath areas.