SpaceWar.com reports: “Hezbollah’s chief said Sunday it was the government’s responsibility to ensure the Israeli army withdraws from Lebanon by a looming ceasefire deadline, as Israel carried out air strikes in the country.

The developments came as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking from Jerusalem, called on Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah following its recent war with Washington’s closest regional ally Israel.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA), meanwhile, reported Israeli forces opened fire towards the southern border town of Hula ‘after residents entered’, killing a woman.

The violence followed unrest this week over the government’s decision to block Iranian flights, which saw a UN peacekeeper convoy attacked during a protest.

‘Israel must fully withdraw on February 18, it has no excuse,’ Hezbollah’s Naim Qassem said in a televised address.

‘It is the responsibility of the Lebanese state’ to exert every effort ‘to make Israel withdraw’, he added…”