Israeli media reports said that Hezbollah has ramped up its domestic production of explosive-laden UAVs and attack or reconnaissance drones as an easier and cheaper alternative to precision missiles and rockets.

Israeli news portal ynet said Tuesday that Hezbollah has drawn tactical inspiration from the effectiveness of drones in Ukraine as it aims for greater self-sufficiency and less reliance on Iran.

Western and United Nations diplomats dismissed as rumors claims that the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was pulling out of the country, Saudi Arabia’s Asharq al-Awsat newspaper has reported.

President Joseph Aoun arrived Tuesday in Jordan where he will meet with king Abdullah II.

Two official Lebanese and Jordanian delegations will also meet to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries and regional developments.

U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack will soon visit Beirut to meet with Lebanese officials, local media reports said.

U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus is reportedly leaving her position and her replacement has not yet been announced.

French special envoy to Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian met Tuesday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

Berri urged Paris to "help Lebanon confront the conspiracy that is being plotted against UNIFIL, Lebanon and its south," hours after United Nations peacekeepers said rock-throwing individuals confronted them during a patrol on Tuesday in south Lebanon.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Tuesday said the continued attacks on its troops are “unacceptable,” after a patrol was attacked by residents and a peacekeeper was slapped near the southern town of al-Hallousiyeh.

Noting that the patrol had been coordinated with the Lebanese Army, UNIFIL stressed that freedom of movement is an essential condition for UNIFIL’s mandate and added that it has the right to move with or without Lebanese Army troops.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced Tuesday that “the time has come to build the state,” describing it as his government’s “top mission.”

An Israeli strike killed a Lebanese father and son Tuesday in a southern village, the Lebanese health ministry and state media said, the latest deaths despite a November ceasefire.

A second son was also wounded in the strike in Shebaa, the state-run National News Agency reported. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

U.S. officials are considering pulling American support from UNIFIL, the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, in a bid to cut costs associated with its operations, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported Sunday evening, with US sources later confirming to The Times of Israel that the option was on the table.

Should the U.S. move ahead with its decision to pull support from the U.N. body, Israel will back the decision, Israel Hayom reported, both out of a desire to align itself with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and in light of the Israeli security establishment’s “cooperation with the Lebanese army since the ceasefire in November,” the Times of Israel said.

Officials close to President Joseph Aoun have floated the idea that a U.S. envoy carry out continuous negotiations between Lebanon and Israel to halt the Israeli escalation and try and find solutions for the disputed border points and the captives file, Kuwait’s al-Anbaa newspaper has reported.