The Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah has demanded that Israeli forces complete a withdrawal from the country’s south in line with terms of the ceasefire deal agreed by the two sides.

Israel and Hezbollah agreed in November to a ceasefire mediated by France and the United States, bringing an end to more than a year of fighting.

Under the deal, Israeli forces were to withdraw from Lebanon and Hezbollah forces were to withdraw from southern Lebanon over a 60-day period ending on Monday.

Israeli government spokesmen David Mencer on Thursday did not directly respond to questions about whether Israel had requested an extension of the deal or say whether Israeli forces would remain in Lebanon after the 60-day deadline.

Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said that the Israeli ambassador to the US had said that Israel is in discussions with the administration of President Donald Trump to convince the US to extend the deadline for at least another month.

“Israeli officials are talking about staying in Lebanon, which would be in violation of the ceasefire agreement to pull out by January 26,” she said.

“Hezbollah is hinting that it’s going to resume military action. It says if Israeli soldiers remain, they will be an occupying force and there will be ‘resistance’,” Khodr noted.

Hezbollah said on Thursday that Israel has to completely withdraw from Lebanon as the 60-day period in the ceasefire deal comes to an end and warned that any breach of the agreement would not be accepted.

“We need a total withdrawal of the Israeli army,” French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier this month, speaking alongside Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun in Beirut.

The Lebanese government has also told US mediators that Israel’s failure to withdraw on time could complicate the Lebanese army’s deployment, and this would be a blow to diplomatic efforts and the optimistic atmosphere in Lebanon since Aoun was elected president on January 9.

Ali Fayyad, a Hezbollah lawmaker, said on January 20 that if Israel failed to withdraw, this would put all Lebanese people in a new phase of “confronting the Israeli occupation through all possible means and tools to force it from our land”.