The military said in a statement that it acted to "remove threats" that violated "the ceasefire agreement conditions".
Among the incidents, the army said it identified "several armed terrorists adjacent to a church in southern Lebanon that was actively used by" Hezbollah on Saturday.
"The troops fired toward the terrorists and eliminated them," it said, adding that in a later scan of the area, troops "located a tunnel shaft containing weapons".
Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) reported "the continued violation of the ceasefire" in south Lebanon by Israeli forces on Sunday.
It reported a series of incidents, among them that "enemy warplanes launched a strike" early Sunday targeting the border village of Yarun.
It also said Israeli forces shelled several locations, including the town of Khiam and the outskirts of Aitarun, and reported "enemy automatic weapons fire" elsewhere.
Israel and Lebanon agreed to a US- and French-brokered truce that began at dawn on Wednesday after more than a year of cross-border exchanges of fire, and two months of all-out war, between Israel's military and Hezbollah.
The ceasefire has reduced the level of fighting over the past five days, but Israel has hit Hezbollah targets it says were violating the truce.
Visiting new military recruits on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was "strictly enforcing the ceasefire agreement".
He said "any violation would immediately be met with a powerful response".
In northern Israel, some residents cautiously returned to their homes this weekend, with media reporting that around 150,000 schoolchildren were able to resume classes in some communities in the north on Sunday.
But 16,000 students were unable to return to school in the north, the education ministry said.
Israel has said more than 60,000 people have been forced from their homes in the north for more than a year by the threat of Hezbollah rocket fire.
The Israel-Hezbollah war killed at least 3,961 people in Lebanon, according to the health ministry in Beirut, most of them after Israel stepped up its bombing campaign in September.
On the Israeli side, the hostilities killed at least 82 soldiers and 47 civilians, authorities said.
World Central Kitchen says three contractors killed, suspends Gaza operations
(AFP) Nov 30, 2024 -
US charity World Central Kitchen said Saturday it was "pausing operations in Gaza" after an Israeli air strike killed three of its contractors, including one who Israel's military said was involved in Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack.
Earlier Saturday, Gaza civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that five people were killed, including "three employees of World Central Kitchen", in the strike in the main southern city of Khan Yunis.
"The three in the car were contractors of ours," WCK told AFP Saturday evening.
The Israeli military had previously said that a Palestinian working for WCK was killed, accusing the individual of being a "terrorist" who "infiltrated Israel and took part in the murderous October 7 massacre" last year.
WCK said in a statement that it "had no knowledge that any individual in the vehicle had alleged ties to the October 7 Hamas attack".
It also told AFP the car had not been marked with the WCK logo, contradicting Bassal's earlier comments.
The Israeli army had said its strike in Khan Yunis targeted "a civilian unmarked vehicle and its movement on the route was not coordinated for transporting of aid".
The Israeli army statement said representatives from the unit responsible for overseeing humanitarian needs in Gaza had "demanded senior officials from the international community and the WCK administration to clarify the issue and order an urgent examination regarding the hiring of workers who took part in the October 7 massacre".
In April, an Israeli strike killed seven WCK staff -- an Australian, three Britons, a North American, a Palestinian and a Pole.
Israel said it had been targeting a "Hamas gunman" in that strike, but the military admitted a series of "grave mistakes" and violations of its own rules of engagement.
The UN said last week that 333 aid workers had been killed since the start of the war in October of last year, 243 of them employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
Palestinian militants' October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,207 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed 44,382 people in Gaza, according to figures from the territory's health ministry which the United Nations considers reliable.
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