UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to keep the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon for another year, calling for stepped-up efforts to achieve a permanent cease-fire and long-term resolution of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

The 13,300-strong U.N. force known as UNIFIL was deployed along Lebanon’s border with Israel after the war to help 15,000 Lebanese troops extend their authority into the south for the first time in decades and create a buffer zone free of Hezbollah fighters.

The 34-day war, which killed more than 1,000 people in Lebanon and 159 people in Israel, was sparked after Hezbollah men attacked an Israeli border patrol, killing three soldiers and capturing two more, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. The remains of Goldwasser and Regev were handed over to Israel in July in a prisoner swap with the militant Lebanese group.

The resolution calls on all parties to respect the cessation of hostilities and the U.N.-drawn Blue Line boundary between Israel and Lebanon.

After the resolution was adopted, Israel’s deputy ambassador Daniel Carmon decried what he called the presence of armed Hezbollah fighters in the south, and the continuing transport of weapons from Iran and Syria in violation of Security Council resolutions.

Israel expects UNIFIL to ensure that the area it patrols is not used for hostile activities, he said.

Lebanese envoy Nawaf Salam said Lebanon’s deployment of troops to the south was evidence of its compliance with the resolution that halted the fighting. He accused Israel of violating its terms by refusing to disclose where cluster bombs were used and continuing to carry out overflights of Lebanon.

A team of United Nations security experts found during a July trip to Lebanon that the government had not made sufficient progress on a set of recommendations issued by the U.N. last year to help the country secure its borders against arms smuggling, according to a new report sent Monday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to the Security Council.

Ban has alleged that Hezbollah has rearmed with new long-range rockets and missiles since its 2006 war with Israel in violation of a U.N. arms embargo that bans weapons transfers to the militant Islamic group.

Ban has said that sophisticated weapons from Iran and Syria - both strong backers of Hezbollah - have passed across the Lebanon-Syria border.