The Israel Defense Forces said Friday that a strike in Lebanon last week had killed Hezbollah’s chief engineer, as a report said some government ministers were unhappy with the ceasefire announced this week and had unsuccessfully demanded a cabinet vote on it.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answered that he wouldn’t call a vote on the latest iteration of the US-brokered truce until Hezbollah has accepted its terms, the Ynet news site reported.

According to the outlet, ministers criticized the fragile ceasefire — which Israeli and Lebanese delegations agreed to renew during a meeting in Washington on Wednesday — during a cabinet meeting Thursday night, and demanded that it be brought to a vote in the cabinet before Israel accepts its terms.

Netanyahu refused to call a vote, however, telling the ministers that “at the moment, there is no deal” because Hezbollah has refused to accept its terms.

“Hezbollah is opposed, and therefore I am not making a decision,” he said, according to Ynet, adding that “if it agrees, I will bring it for your approval.”

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem appeared to reject the US-brokered ceasefire on Thursday, saying that his Iran-backed terror group will keep bombarding northern Israel as long as strikes continue in Lebanon.

Israeli strikes the following night in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre killed seven people, a source from the country’s civil defense told AFP, without saying if they were combatants or civilians.

One strike near Jabal Amel hospital killed four people, wounded seven and lightly damaged the facility, while another in a residential area killed three and wounded five, including two children.

On Friday, an AFP correspondent saw a bank heavily damaged near the Jabal Amel medical facility, one of three hospitals in Tyre. The hospital has been damaged by strikes on several occasions during the war, most recently in an attack on Monday that killed four people and wounded 127, including 39 staff.

Following Israeli orders for residents to leave most of Tyre, many people have sought shelter in its small Old City, which has so far been spared evacuation warnings and strikes. It is where the Christian quarter is located.

With shelters full, displaced people have been sleeping in cars........

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