Prime Minister Nawaf Salam reiterated, after a cabinet session at the Grand serail, his commitment to efforts aiming at stopping the Israeli war.

Salam condemned joint Hezbollah-Iran attacks on Israel and said they do not serve Lebanon's national interests.

The Israeli army targeted Wednesday several towns and villages in south Lebanon including Houmin al-Tahta, al-Mansouri, Khiam, Harees, Kawnin, Beit Yahoun, Haddatha, al-Tiri, Hanine, al-Qawzah, Beit Leef, al-Ghandourieh, Kafra, al-Qlayleh, al-Henniyyeh, Maaroub, Dweir, Marjaoun, Maroun al-Ras, Marwanieh, and Ramadieh.

At least six people were killed in the strikes, four of them from the same family in Houmin.

UNESCO convened Wednesday an extraordinary meeting to strengthen the protection of cultural heritage in Lebanon, following the country’s request.

The meeting - an extraordinary session of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict – led to granting provisional enhanced protection to 39 cultural properties as well as the provision of an international financial assistance, totaling over 100,000 USD for emergency operations on the ground.

The Foreign Ministers of Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, and the High Representative of the European Union, expressed Wednesday their full support to the Government and people of Lebanon, "who are once again suffering the dramatic consequences of a war that is not theirs."

"We express our condolences to the family of the victims and our solidarity to the civilian population impacted by this war both in Lebanon and Israel," the Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon said in a statement, condemning Hezbollah for attacks in support of Iran against Israel. The attacks "must cease immediately," the statement said. "The priority is to avoid a further escalation of the regional conflict with Iran."

Speaker Nabih Berri has revealed to his visitors that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had informed him, one day before the Lebanese Foreign Ministry’s decision to expel Iran's ambassador, that Tehran insists any agreement to end the war must also include Lebanon, affirming that “what applies to Tehran applies to Beirut.”

A projectile, that likely came from an Israeli warplane, on Tuesday hit an open area near a car company's parking lot in the Mar Roukoz-Dekwaneh area east of Beirut, creating a large crater in the ground and damaging vehicles and a nearby kiosk but causing no injuries.

The sound of a warplane could be heard in a video of the incident that was accidentally filmed by a man from a nearby hill. The man apparently thought that an airstrike would target Beirut's southern suburbs.

U.S. President Donald Trump told The New York Post on Tuesday that he believes the Iran war is likely to end soon and that other nations can reopen the Strait of Hormuz themselves — after he posted to social media a video of huge explosions near Isfahan that he said hit “a lot of stuff.”

President Joseph Aoun affirmed Tuesday that Lebanon welcomes the support offered by French President Emmanuel Macron to "help it confront the ongoing Israeli escalation against Lebanese territory and to reach a ceasefire and begin negotiations based on the negotiating initiative announced a few days ago."

At least nine people were killed Tuesday in Israeli strikes on south and east Lebanon.

The Israeli army targeted al-Qantara, al-Qasmiyeh, Yater, Deirkifa, Zawtar, Shehabiyyeh-Kfardounin, Majdalzoun, Mansouri, al-Qlayleh, Henniyyeh, Ebba, Rshaf, Kafra, Dayr a-Zahrani, Srifa, Ebl al-Siqi, Khiam, and Jebshit in south Lebanon, while artillery shells hit Wadi Serbine, Touline, Qabrikha, Majdal Selem and the outskirts of Beit Leef.

The Israeli military said on Tuesday four soldiers had been killed in combat in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah claimed attacks on troops in Ainata, Naqoura, Bayada, Beit Leef, Aitaroun and on the Qantara-Taybe road.

A military statement named three soldiers from the same battalion who "fell during combat" and a separate statement said another soldier, who had not yet been publicly named, had died in the same incident.