Beirut — At least two people were wounded by Israeli fire in southern Lebanon on Thursday, according to state media, as the Israeli military and Hezbollah accused each other of breaching a ceasefire less than two full days after it took effect.

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that “several suspects were identified arriving with vehicles to a number of areas in southern Lebanon, breaching the conditions of the ceasefire. The IDF opened fire toward them.”

“The IDF remains in southern Lebanon and will actively enforce violations of the ceasefire agreement,” the military said.

Hassan Fadlallah, a Hezbollah member of Lebanon’s parliament accused Israel of violating the ceasefire by firing on civilians returning to their homes in the southern villages.

“The Israeli enemy is attacking those returning to the border villages,” Fadlallah told reporters after a session of the legislature, according to the Reuters news agency. “There are violations today by Israel, even in this form.”

The agreement, brokered by the United States and France, includes an initial two-month ceasefire in which Hezbollah militants are to withdraw north of the Litani River and Israeli forces are to return to their side of the border. As Israeli forces withdrawal, the buffer zone will be patrolled by Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers moving in to take their place, but it is expected to take weeks, and Israel retained full security control over both sides of the border region as of Thursday.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said two people were wounded by Israeli fire in Markaba, close to the border, without providing further details. It said Israel fired artillery in three other locations near the border. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

While the detailed terms of the ceasefire agreement have not been made public by the U.S., President Biden made clear when he announced it on Tuesday that Israel retained the right to self-defense, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that any violations of the deal would be met with a swift and harsh military response.  

An Associated Press reporter in northern Israel near the border heard Israeli drones buzzing overhead and the sound of artillery strikes in Lebanon.

Israeli officials have said forces will be withdrawn gradually as it ensures that the agreement is being enforced. Israel has warned people repeatedly not to return to areas where troops are deployed, and says it reserves the right to strike Hezbollah if it violates the terms of the truce.

The ceasefire agreement announced late Tuesday ended 14 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that began a day after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack out of Gaza, when the Lebanese militant group began firing rockets, drones and missiles in solidarity. The Hamas attack saw the militants kill some 1,200 people in southern Israel and take 250 others hostage.

Israel retaliated with airstrikes, and the conflict steadily intensified for nearly a year before boiling over into all-out war in mid-September. The war in Gaza is still raging with no end in sight, with health officials in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory saying more than 44,280 people have been killed. Most of the enclave’s 2.3 million people have been displaced from their homes, many of them forced to flee multiple times over the last year.

More than 3,760 people were killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon during the conflict, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials. The fighting killed more than 70 people in Israel, meanwhile, more than half of them civilians, as well as dozens of Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Lebanon.

Some 1.2 million people were displaced in Lebanon, and thousands began streaming back to their homes on Wednesday despite warnings from the Lebanese military and the Israeli army to stay out of certain areas. Some 50,000 people were displaced on the Israeli side, but few have returned and the communities near the northern border are still largely deserted.

Jurors in New Mexico have awarded a man more than $412 million in a medical malpractice case that involved a men’s health clinic that operates in several states.

The man’s attorneys celebrated Monday’s verdict, saying they are hopeful it will prevent other men from falling victim to a scheme that involved fraud and what they described as dangerous penile injections. They said the punitive and compensatory damages total the largest amount to ever be awarded by a jury in a medical malpractice case in the U.S.

“It’s a national record-setting case and it’s righteous because I don’t think there’s any place for licensed professionals to be defrauding patients for money. That is a very egregious breach of their fiduciary duty,” said Lori Bencoe, one of the lawyers who represented the plaintiff. “That’s breach of trust and anytime someone is wearing a white coat, they shouldn’t be allowed to do that.”

The award follows a trial held in Albuquerque earlier this month that centered on allegations outlined in a lawsuit filed by the man’s attorneys in 2020. NuMale Medical Center and company officials were named as defendants.

“This corporate scheme manipulates and uses fear as a tactic to convince these men to do this,” Nick Rowley, a trial lawyer, told CBS affiliate KRQE.

According to the complaint, the man was 66 when he visited the clinic in 2017 in search of treatment for fatigue and weight loss. The clinic is accused of misdiagnosing him and unnecessarily treating him with “invasive erectile dysfunction shots” that caused irreversible damage.

Nick Rowley, another attorney who was part of the plaintiff’s team, said the out-of-state medical corporation set up a “fraudulent scheme to make millions off of conning old men.” He provided some details in a social media post, saying clinic workers told patients they would have irreversible damage if they didn’t agree to injections three times a week.

NuMale Medical Center told KRQE that they “disagree with the verdict and intend to pursue all available legal remedies, including appeal.”

NuMale Medical Center President Brad Palubicki said in a statement sent Wednesday to The Associated Press that the company’s focus is on continuing to deliver responsible patient care while maintaining strict safety and compliance standards at all of its facilities.

“While we respect the judicial process, due to ongoing legal proceedings, we cannot comment on specific details of the case at this time,” he said.

NuMale also has clinics in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, Nebraska, North Carolina and Wisconsin.

According to court records, jurors found that fraudulent and negligent conduct by the defendants resulted in damages to the plaintiff. They also found that unconscionable conduct by the defendants violated the Unfair Practices Act.

In a statement to KRQE, the man’s attorneys said the verdict sends a powerful message that “medical providers cannot prioritize profits over patients’ well-being without being held accountable.”

Many of us feel sleepy after eating turkey and all the fixings on our Thanksgiving dinner table, but why?  

While we often blame our post-dinner drowsiness on the tryptophan in turkey, experts say that isn’t the full picture.

What is tryptophan?

Tryptophan is one of 20 essential, naturally-occurring amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins, according to the nonprofit Center For Food As Medicine. 

When tryptophan reaches the brain, it is converted into the neurotransmitter serotonin and hormone melatonin, both of which are sleep-inducing, according to the organization. 

Does turkey really make you sleepy?

Research suggests that consuming tryptophan can help people fall asleep faster and improve sleep quality, according to the Sleep Foundation — but it’s not likely to cause someone to need an immediate snooze. 

“Turkey is reported to make us sleepy because it has a higher concentration of the amino acid tryptophan compared to some other types of meat,” registered dietitian Melanie Betz, founder and CEO of The Kidney Dietitian in Chicago, told CBS News. “In reality, brain chemistry is much more complicated than that. Turkey has many different amino acids, all of which get converted to different hormones and complete with each other in all of those pathways.”

Turkey isn’t the only food with tryptophan, either. It is found in poultry, meat, cheese, fish, eggs and seeds — some of which have even more of the amino acid than the Thanksgiving staple it’s so often associated with. 

“There are many foods, such as pumpkin seeds, ground pork, cheddar, swiss, provolone and mozzarella cheese, and yellowfin tuna that have more tryptophan per 100 grams than turkey,” according to the Center For Food As Medicine. 

What else could contribute to Thanksgiving fatigue?

Betz says multiple aspects of a Thanksgiving feast could add to the “food coma”-type tiredness many experience. 

“The sleepy feeling you feel after a turkey dinner is much more likely related to eating a large, delicious meal — and perhaps an extra glass of wine — than a surge of melatonin related to turkey,” she said, explaining that when you eat, “blood rushes to your intestines to pick up all of those wonderful nutrients from food, moving away from your brain, which can make you feel tired.”

And alcohol has a sedative or “downer” effect, she added, which can contribute to sleepiness on the holidays.