The heads of state of Lebanon, France and Jordan will meet Thursday in Paris as part of an effort to drum up support for the struggling Lebanese military.

A donor conference for Lebanon's cash-strapped army was initially set to take place in February, led by France, Saudi Arabia and the United States. However, it was postponed following the eruption of the Iran war and the latest round of the Israel-Hezbollah war.

Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh Moawad and Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter held a meeting overnight in the presence of U.S. State Department Counselor Daniel Holler.

President Joseph Aoun left for Paris on Wednesday, meeting an invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the general situation in Lebanon and the region, as well as bilateral relations between the two countries.

Aoun will on Thursday join Macron and King Abdullah II of Jordan for the opening of the preparatory meeting for the international conference in support of the Lebanese Army and security forces.

Israeli forces carried out detonations on Wednesday in the southern border towns of Teeri and al-Mansouri while artillery shelled overnight into Wednesday Kfartebnit, Marjaayoun, Baraashit, and Wadi Zebqine.

Israeli strikes meanwhile targeted Wadi Zebqine and a region between Mayfadoun and Zawtar al-Sharqiyeh.

Former President Michel Aoun, represented by lawyer Wadih Akl, on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint, after media reports said the public prosecution has requested that he be indicted over the 2020 Beirut port explosion.

The second day of a general parliamentary debate session witnessed renewed verbal clashes between lawmakers from Hezbollah and political rivals.

“Go check what the Israelis said about Ali al-Taher. Shame on you,” MP Ihab Hamadeh of Hezbollah told his political foes, prompting MP Waddah Sadek to say, “Go check who brought the Israelis into the country!”

An Israeli force on Wednesday made an incursion into the southern town of Halta, where it blew up the house of the resident Abdallah Hatem Abdel-Al and kidnapped a resident.

The area had earlier been targeted by three Israeli artillery shells.

President Joseph Aoun told AFP that Lebanon wants a new force, from Europe or elsewhere, to avoid a security "vacuum" in the south when U.N. peacekeepers leave at the end of the year.

"What matters is that there is no vacuum," he told AFP in an interview on Tuesday. He added that any new force for Lebanon's south, part of which is occupied by Israel, would be "temporary until the (Lebanese) army can deploy".

A Lebanese prosecutor on Tuesday requested that former president Michel Aoun be indicted over the 2020 Beirut port blast that killed more than 200 people, a judicial official told AFP.

The prosecutor at Lebanon's Court of Cassation asked the judge overseeing the case, Tarek Bitar, to "press charges against (former) president Aoun," said the official, requesting anonymity.

Israeli forces carried out overnight into Tuesday detonations in the border villages of Kounine and Kfartebnit, and struck Zawtar al-Sharqiyeh, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, al-Mansouri, Hanine, and al-Qantara.

In nearby al-Bayada in the Tyre District, forces set homes ablaze.