Lebanon’s government has agreed to extend the U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Israel, even though the Israeli military has consistently violated the deal. The agreement reached Wednesday requires Hezbollah to cease fire on Israeli troops occupying southern Lebanon, ordering their withdrawal from territory north of the Litani River. Once again, Hezbollah was not a party to the talks, which were hosted by the State Department in Washington. Ahead of Wednesday’s announcement, Hezbollah continued to attack Israeli forces occupying southern Lebanon and fired rockets toward northern Israel. Meanwhile Israeli strikes across Lebanon killed at least nine people on Wednesday, including an attack on an ambulance that killed two paramedics. Several more people were wounded after the ceasefire extension was announced, when an Israeli drone attacked a vehicle in southern Lebanon.