Lebanon has arrested 32 people in recent months on suspicion of providing Israel with information on Hezbollah that facilitated strikes on the group, a judicial official told AFP on Thursday.

More than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah including two months of open war saw Israel pummel the group's arsenal and kill a slew of senior commanders, and it has kept up strikes even after a November truce.

Justice Minister Adel Nassar has appointed judicial investigators into several political assassinations that took place in Lebanon as part of his steps to put an end to impunity, the National News Agency said.

Below is the list of the appointed investigators:

President Joseph Aoun on Thursday welcomed the ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas, expressing hope that this agreement will constitute a first step towards a permanent ceasefire and an end to the humanitarian suffering of the Palestinian people.

Aoun urged the international and regional communities to keep pushing for a "comprehensive and just peace" in the region, "that would guarantee the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative approved by the Arab Summit in Beirut in 2002."

Christian Turner, recently appointed as the UK’s next Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, has concluded a two-day visit to Lebanon, the British embassy said on Wednesday. This is part of his regional engagement ahead of assuming his new role in January.

Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal on Wednesday began a visit to Qatar at the invitation of his Qatari counterpart Lieutenant General Jassim bin Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Mannai.

A Lebanese Army statement said the visit aims to “boost cooperation between the Lebanese and Qatari armies in light of the current challenges.”

As the Lebanese government aims to disarm Hezbollah under U.S. pressure, the army is expected to fully clear a stretch along the Lebanon-Israel border, defined as south of the Litani river, by the end of November before moving into further phases, reports said.

The Lebanese government first aimed to completely disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year, but officials later said resources are too limited to meet the deadline.

The health of Hannibal Gadhafi, son of longtime Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, is alarming and he should be released after nearly a decade of pre-trial detention in Lebanon, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Lebanese authorities arrested Gadhafi in 2015 and accused him of withholding information about the disappearance of revered Lebanese Shiite cleric Imam Moussa Sadr nearly four decades earlier.

Britain is seeking to strengthen its presence in Lebanon through the gateway of the conflict with Israel, a media report said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and a number of ministers are currently discussing possible diplomatic and political measures that the government should take to confront Israel’s reluctance to implement the November 27 ceasefire agreement, a prominent ministerial source said.

“The debate kicked off based on the fact that the political efforts have not yet led to tangible results and that there is a problem related to the competency of the Foreign Ministry’s work, especially the performance of Minister Youssef Rajji, amid a belief that the latter is not concerned, neither personally nor politically, with carrying out a special effort in this regard,” the source told al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published Wednesday.

In connection with Trump’s plan for ending the war in Gaza, sources told the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal that a possible ceasefire agreement in the Palestinian territory would have a positive impact on Lebanon.

“Trump has an inclination to end the ‘endless wars,’ which indicates that there is a possibility to resolve the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and work on a solution for the issue of the monopoly of arms,” the sources said.