The leader of the Lebanese militant Islamist movement Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, has said his group plans "high-level coordination" with the Lebanese army to implement a ceasefire deal with Israel that began on Wednesday.

According to Lebanese officials, more than 3,700 people have been killed by Israel's intense bombing campaign, many of them civilians. On the Israeli side, over 130 people have been killed, local reports say.

The bursts of violence — with no reports of serious casualties — reflected the uneasy nature of the ceasefire that otherwise appeared to hold as Lebanese troops began to deploy in parts of southern Lebanon.