The meetings that U.S. envoys Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk held Thursday in Israel regarding a ceasefire in Lebanon were “good” and “the gaps have narrowed,” a U.S. official told the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri noted Friday that “at least since September, Israel has wasted several certain chances to achieve a ceasefire, implement Resolution 1701, restore calm and secure a return of the displaced on both sides of the border.”

More than a month into its war with Israel, Hezbollah says it is ready for a truce, but there are limits to what it can accept after suffering devastating attacks, analysts say.

The Iran-backed group said Wednesday it would accept a ceasefire, if offered and if the terms were "suitable," acknowledging it had been dealt "painful" blows by Israel.

Lebanon’s state news agency says two separate Israeli airstrikes on Friday in the country's northeast have killed 10 people.

Cattle farmer Khairallah Yaacoub refused to leave south Lebanon despite a year of Hezbollah-Israel clashes. When full-scale war erupted, he and four others were stranded in their ruined border village.

Yaacoub is among a handful of villagers in the war-battered south who have tried to stay put despite the Israeli onslaught.

The news came by video. Law professor Ali Mourad discovered that Israel had dynamited his family's south Lebanon home only after footage of the operation was sent to his phone.

"A friend from the village sent me the video, telling me to make sure my dad doesn't see it," Mourad, 43, told AFP.

The World Health Organization said Friday it was deeply concerned about Israeli attacks hitting healthcare workers and facilities in Lebanon, in its war against Hezbollah.

The U.N.'s special coordinator for Lebanon on Friday said the country's cultural heritage was being endangered by Israeli strikes on the ancient Lebanese cities of Tyre and Baalbek, home to UNESCO-designated Roman ruins.

The U.N. humanitarian aid coordination agency is pointing to a new “wave of displacement” in Beirut's southern suburbs after the Israeli army issued new orders for people to leave.

Spokesman Jens Laerke of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid, citing local officials, says the new displacement orders for the capital’s southern suburbs were followed shortly afterward by heavy airstrikes.

The official National News Agency on Friday reported an Israeli strike on the eastern city of Baalbek, following heavy air raids on the area in recent days.