Israel’s far right ministers have demanded the complete destruction of Lebanon after four IDF soldiers were killed amid a sharp escalation with Hezbollah that threatens to derail the interim US-Iran deal designed to halt the wider war.Hawkish national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Friday that “all of Lebanon must burn” after the Israeli military said its soldiers were killed in an incident in Lebanon overnight, without giving further details.“For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!” he wrote on social media, adding: “In the Middle East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint - you need to go beserk. To obliterate.”Far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, another lynchpin in Israel’s coalition government, concurred that it was “time to speak with fire” and “open the gates of hell”.The outbursts threaten to put Benjamin Netanyahu on a collision course with Donald Trump as the US pushes for a deal to end the wider war with Iran.Netanyahu said dozens of terrorists were killed in a new wave of strikes on Friday (AFP/Getty)Netanyahu insisted that Hezbollah would pay “a very heavy price for these attacks”, reiterating that the military would remain in southern Lebanon despite Trump’s deal, which promises an end to the conflict in the country.The Israeli PM said he had instructed the IDF to strike Hezbollah “with full force” last night in response to the attacks, and said they struck more than 80 targets and killed “dozens of terrorists”.The IDF then struck Hezbollah headquarters in the Bekaa Valley, in east Lebanon, this morning, he said.At least 18 people were reported to have been killed in the Israeli strikes overnight, while Hezbollah said its fighters had ambushed an Israeli force advancing near the strategically important Ali al-Taher hill, north of the Litani River.Hezbollah claimed to have destroyed three Israeli Merkava main battle tanks with guided missiles and targeted troops with rocket and artillery fire. Hezbollah said it later attacked Israeli forces trying to enter the area to retrieve casualties.Residents in the southern districts of Tyre and Bint Jbeil were displaced from their homes in large numbers amid escalating Israeli strikes, according to Lebanon’s state news agency, NNA.The clashes have forced a rift between Israel and the United States as Trump tries to secure a lasting deal to end the wider war with Iran. The US president told reporters in France during the G7 summit that Netanyahu needed to “be more responsible” on Lebanon, repeating his claim that “without the United States, there would be no Israel”. He also asserted that Israel had been fighting Hezbollah for “too long”. “Too many people have been killed. You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody, because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they're not all Hezbollah," he said.Dr Lindsay Newman, associate fellow with Chatham House, told The Independent that the commitment is a “fundamental tension” in the document to play out over the initial sixty-day extension period.The IDF sharply escalated strikes in Lebanon on Friday following the deaths of four soldiers overnight (pictured: smoke from an Israeli airstrike in Choukine village) (AFP/Getty)She said it was “a very real scenario” that if the ongoing fighting crosses a certain threshold, it could threaten progress in talks. Then again, the actors involved have so far been willing to overlook some “low level” activity, she said.The scrapping of plans for US and Iranian negotiators to meet in Switzerland on Friday fuelled more uncertainty around the timing of talks that will seek to turn a memorandum to end the war into a more permanent peace deal. Preparations for technical talks to start in the Swiss mountaintop resort of Buergenstock were far advanced when US vice president JD Vance said on Thursday he had dropped plans to attend, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.