Calm prevails today on the border of southern Lebanon after the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip took effect, according to the official Lebanese news agency, an AFP photographer and residents.

“A precarious calm prevails on the southern border, after the humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza came into effect at 07:00 am (local time and Greek time),” ANI, the official Lebanese news agency, reported.

An AFP photographer in the border district of Marzayoun said he heard gunfire ten minutes before the Gaza truce came into force and then calm returned.

A resident of the border district of Alma al-Saab also told AFP that “calm reigns,” adding that he could not hear “the Israeli planes, not even the reconnaissance planes” that had been flying constantly over southern Lebanon until then.

The calm comes a day after the powerful pro-Iranian Hezbollah stepped up its attacks against the Israeli army, which in turn pounded the border zones of southern Lebanon.

The Shiite group today claimed responsibility for 22 attacks against Israeli positions from southern Lebanonwhere he lost seven of his fighters in one day, including members of his elite unit.

Hezbollah says it is carrying out these attacks “in support” of its Palestinian ally Hamas and has not issued an announcement that it will abide by the ceasefire.

In Lebanon, cross-border clashes have claimed the lives of 109 people, according to an AFP tally.

At least 77 were Hezbollah fighters, in addition to at least 14 civilians, including three journalists.

The dead included the son of the head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary group and an official from Hamas’s military branch in Lebanon.