...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....'s central bank on Saturday condemned a "direct and deliberate" Israeli attack on one of its branches in the southern city of Nabatieh, where Israel had intensified its strikes despite a ceasefire.
"Israeli forces directly targeted a branch of the Bank of Lebanon in Nabatieh," the bank said in a statement.
It condemned what it called "a deliberate attack against an official building that is inseparable from Lebanese state institutions".
The building was empty at the time of the strike and sustained only material damage, it added.
The central bank called on the United States and allies "to guarantee the protection of civilians and Lebanese official institutions".
Hezbollah had pulled Lebanon into the conflict in early March when it fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader in U.S.-Israeli strikes.
Despite a new ceasefire announcement on Friday as part of the memorandum of understanding signed by Tehran and Washington, Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah had continued to clash in the Nabatieh region. The fighting stopped later on Saturday after Israel's politicianship ordered its army to halt operations
Israeli war on Lebanon kills over 4,000 after Friday death toll rises to 83
[AnNahar] Lebanon's health ministry said Saturday that Israeli attacks since March 2 when the latest Israel-Hezbollah war began had reached 4,057 dead, including 135 health and emergency workers, and 12,121 people wounded.
The ministry also raised the toll in Israeli attacks on Friday from 47 to "a final toll of 83 martyrs and 141 wounded," most of them in south Lebanon but also in the country's east.