At least 12 people have been killed, including a child, in southern Lebanon, as Israel continues its strikes despite a ceasefire, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday.

Israeli forces killed at least eight people in Habboush in the Nabatieh district on Friday, and wounded at least eight others, including another child and a woman. Lebanon's Civil Defence searched through the rubble of what Al Jazeera described as a massive set of air strikes that destroyed a residential neighbourhood.

Al Jazeera's Obaida Hitto, reporting from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, said the footage coming out of Habboush was dramatic, with buildings completely flattened. He said the same pattern was being seen throughout the country, with strikes that killed and injured many other people in at least six other locations in southern Lebanon on Friday, including women and children.

Another four people were reported killed in other attacks near Tyre and Nabatieh, according to Lebanon's National News Agency. Israel also demolished houses, a convent and a school on Friday.

Israel issued a forced evacuation order to residents in Habboush on Friday. The village lies north of the Litani River. The military's Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, told people in a post on social media to move at least 1,000 metres away immediately before strikes hit the village. The town had also been attacked a day earlier without any warning.

A woman was killed and several children were injured during Israel's latest attacks in Lebanon, with civilians making up the majority of victims over the past 24 hours. The Israeli army said on Friday that it had hit 40 Hezbollah sites in the past day in renewed air strikes across southern Lebanon. Hezbollah said it retaliated with several attacks on Israeli forces within Lebanese territory, saying it targeted a Merkava tank and other vehicles, as well as soldiers in Sour.

Israel has said its attacks target the pro-Iran Lebanese group Hezbollah, but a large proportion of those killed have been civilians. Israel continues to occupy parts of southern Lebanon, which it calls a buffer zone, and has shared satellite imagery showing entire neighbourhoods levelled in the south.

Al Jazeera reporter Zeina Khodr reported on Friday that Israeli troops have been systematically destroying civilian homes, infrastructure and water networks, and that activists and observers say the aim is to make southern Lebanon unliveable. Human rights activists have called the destruction a war crime. Mounir Kabalan, a resident of Mais al-Jabal in Lebanon's southern Marjayoun district whose home was damaged, said he felt overwhelmed with deep sorrow because the house held many memories with his parents and relatives, and described the uprooted olive trees he had planted with his father and brothers in 2007.

The attacks are continuing despite a US-brokered ceasefire. At least 28 people were reported killed in Lebanon on Thursday. Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health's Emergency Operations Center reported on Friday that 2,618 people have been killed and 8,094 wounded since hostilities began on 2 March. More than one million people have been displaced by Israel's war on Lebanon.

Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri are reported to be divided on how to approach negotiations to end the war with Israel. On Thursday, the US embassy in Beirut said Lebanon was at a crossroads, and that its people had an opportunity to reclaim their country through peace talks with Israel.

Sources: Al Jazeera and Al Jazeera.