The cease-fire agreement between Israel and the terror group Hezbollah was holding together by a thread on Thursday after the Jewish State launched an airstrike and fired a salvo of rounds in Lebanon in response to what it said were actions that breached the deal and threatened Israelis.

The Israeli military said that “suspects” were detected arriving in an off-limits section of southern Lebanon on Thursday morning in defiance of the agreement. 

Israeli troops responded by firing several warning shots from tanks in southern Lebanon, and then launching a drone strike that killed two suspected Hezbollah operatives who entered a known rocket launch site. 

Officials said the Hezbollah terrorists were taken out “to thwart the threat.” 

The cease-fire deal — which took effect at 4 a.m. on Wednesday after it was announced by US President Biden at the White House — allows Israel to take military action against direct threats from Lebanon.

The Israeli military warned that it will do what it has to stop Hezbollah from firing on Israelis during the ceasefire. 

“We will enforce it with fire, enforce it very, very strongly,” said IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, according to a translation from the Times of Israel.

Lebanese officials said that during Thursday morning’s incident, Israeli tanks opened fire at a half-dozen locations in southern Lebanon, from which the Jewish state agreed to gradually withdraw as part of the truce.

The tank fire hit five towns and some agriculture fields in southern Lebanon, injuring at least two people, according to state media and Lebanese security sources. 

It was unclear wehther the fighting will escalate and risk blowing up the agreement to end fighting in Israel’s neighbor to the north. 

It has yet to be confirmed if the “suspects” Israel complained about were terrorists with Hezbollah, which is supposed to withdraw to roughly the Litani River north of the international border.

Hassan Fadlallah, a Hezbollah member of Lebanon’s parliament, claimed that they were just civilians returning to their homes.

Lebanon’s parliament speaker Nabih Berri, who led his country’s side in the peace talks, reportedly had encouraged residents to return immediately, despite Israel urging them not to do so yet.

Israel is due to withdraw from southern Lebanon within 60 days under the terms of the deal, which was reached in the waning days of Biden’s administration with the involvement of French President Emmanuel Macron.

After the Israeli forces exit, the Lebanese army and an American-led five nation committee will be tasked with ensuring the ceasefire and stopping Hezbollah from regrouping in southern Lebanon. 

In the past two months, the Israeli military wiped out the senior leadership of Hezbollah, including killing its longtime chief Hassan Nasrallah in a Sept. 27 airstrike in Beirut — just 10 days after killing and wounding hundreds of the group’s operatives by detonating pagers they used to communicate.

Biden announced the cease-fire along Israel’s northern border after failed attempts to negotiate a cessation in fighting between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, which dogged him during his final year in office.