Ten people, including two children, were killed and five injured in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiya, the state-run NNA news agency reported today.

The victims were all Syrian citizens, NNA reported, adding that the final tally of the attack will be announced after DNA tests are carried out to identify the victims.

The Israeli armed forces announced that the airstrike targeted a weapons depot used by Hezbollah fighters.

The strike came after ceasefire talks between the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas and Israel broke down in Doha on Friday, with negotiators set to meet again next week.

Tensions have risen in recent weeks in the region after a rocket attack blamed on Hezbollah killed 12 children and teenagers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel responded by killing a top Hezbollah commander in the suburbs of Beirut.

Hezbollah has said it will respond to Israel, as it has said it will do to Iran, for the assassination in Tehran of the political leader of the Palestinian organization Hamas, Ismail Haniya.