The ministry also said a 17-year-old wounded in an Israeli strike in south Lebanon's Aitaroun a day earlier had died, bringing the toll in that raid to two dead.

The Israeli military had said the strike killed a Hezbollah operative.

Israel has continued to strike Lebanon since the November 27 ceasefire that largely halted more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, including two months of all-out war.

The United Nations Human Rights Office said on Tuesday that "at least 71 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since the ceasefire came into effect".

Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said last week that 186 people had been killed since the truce, without saying how many had been members of the group.

The health ministry has not responded to AFP requests for updated figures.

The truce accord was based on a UN Security Council resolution that says Lebanese troops and United Nations peacekeepers should be the only forces in south Lebanon, and calls for the disarmament of all non-state groups.

Under the truce, Hezbollah was to withdraw fighters from south of Lebanon's Litani River and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure there.

Israel was to pull out all its forces from south Lebanon, although it continues to hold five positions that it deems "strategic".

Lebanon's army has been deploying in the south near the border as Israeli forces have withdrawn.

A source close to Hezbollah told AFP on Saturday that the group had ceded to the Lebanese army around 190 of its 265 military positions identified south of the Litani.