U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein has contacted Lebanese figures and spoken of a “serious chance” to reach a truce agreement in Gaza, which would allow for agreeing special arrangements for the situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border, a media report said.

The Lebanese figures have quoted Hochstein as saying that the Americans and many sides believe that the situations in south Lebanon and the Red Sea are linked to the situation in Gaza, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Ongoing hostilities in southern Lebanon are taking a devastating toll on the population, forcing approximately 90,000 people – including 30,000 children – from their homes. According to the latest report from the Ministry of Public Health, 8 children are among the 344 people killed and 75 children among the 1359 people injured since the escalation of the hostilities in October 2023.

The increase in armed conflict has damaged civilian infrastructure and facilities and has also impacted the essential services that children and families depend on, including significant damage to nine water stations, which serve a population of 100,000 people. More than 70 schools are currently closed, affecting around 20,000 students and significantly affecting their education. Around 23 healthcare facilities - serving 4,000 people - are closed due to the hostilities.

Lebanon has received an amended proposal Paris had previously presented for a diplomatic resolution to the border conflict, Nidaa al-Watan newspaper sad.

French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné had visited Lebanon during the weekend but Speaker Nabih Berri said that Séjourné did not submit the paper during his visit and that the paper will be delivered to Lebanese officials by Tuesday.

Hezbollah said Tuesday it has targeted overnight groups of soldiers in Dovev and Avivim in northern Israel.

The group said the attacks were in response to Israeli attacks on civilians in south Lebanon.

Leaked photographs of the son of Libya's late dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the tiny underground cell where he has been held for years in Lebanon have raised concerns in the north African nation as Libyan authorities demand improvements.

The photos showed a room without natural light packed with Hannibal Gadhafi's belongings, a bed and a tiny toilet. "I live in misery," local Al-Jadeed TV quoted the detainee as saying in a Saturday evening broadcast, adding that he is a political prisoner in a case he has no information about.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Beirut on May 2 together with President of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides, the EU Delegation to Lebanon said on Monday.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has informed MP Alain Aoun of the FPM that he has been referred to the Movement’s so-called arbitration council, days after Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab was reportedly expelled from the FPM, a media report said.

The developments prompted MP Ibrahim Kanaan to send a letter to Bassil urging him to “reverse these decisions that threaten the FPM’s unity and image, especially amid these circumstances,” the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Monday.

The Lebanese side is yet to receive a French paper proposing a solution for the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, knowing that it was supposed to receive it two days prior to French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné’s weekend visit to Lebanon, Speaker Nabih Berri said overnight.

“When I asked Séjourné why the French paper had not been sent, he said that we would receive it within hours and we agreed that we would study it once it arrives,” Berri told al-Jadeed TV.

Gunmen in north Lebanon paraded with light- and medium-caliber arms and fired heavily in the air during the funeral of two Jamaa Islamiya militants killed in an Israeli drone strike, drawing condemnations from some Lebanese political forces.

The two militants, Mohammad Saeed Khalaf and Bilal Mohammad Khalaf, were targeted by the Israeli strike in the West Bekaa town of Maydoun on Friday.

Hamas' armed wing the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades fired Monday a barrage of rockets from south Lebanon toward a command center in northern Israel.

Hezbollah has exchanged near-daily strikes with Israeli forces in the border region — and sometimes beyond — for almost seven months against the backdrop of Israel’s war on Gaza. Hamas has also claimed cross-border attacks.