New airstrikes in Lebanon after Israel warns residents to flee one village despite tense ceasefire

Israel carried out airstrikes on several towns in southern Lebanon Friday, Lebanese media said, hours after President Trump announced a three-week extension of a tense ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.

An Israeli military spokesman warned residents of one southern village to flee their homes before the strikes were reported, saying Iranian-backed Hezbollah was launching operations from Deir Aames, "forcing the Defense Army to act against it in your place of residence."

The IDF struck the town as well as the outskirts of Kunin and Bint Jbeil Friday, according to Lebanese media, which showed images of the apparent strikes.

Earlier Friday, both the IDF and Hezbollah confirmed that the Iranian-backed group, long designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Israel, had shot down an Israeli drone in the skies over southern Lebanon.

On Thursday evening, ambassadors from Lebanon and Israel in Washington D.C. signed an extension to a tenuous ceasefire deal that both the IDF and Hezbollah have accused each other repeatedly of violating.

A prominent Hezbollah lawmaker said earlier Friday that the group "firmly rejects" the three-week extension of the truce, and Israel warned that it would "continue to act decisively" against threats from Hezbollah.