The first week of February started with high-level diplomatic missions as Israel intensified its strikes on Lebanon, wounding at least 20 people and killing at least two over the weekend and into Monday.

As President Joseph Aoun kicked off a two-day visit to Spain, with Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam was heading to the United Arab Emirates to attend the World Government Summit, and Army Chief Rodolphe Haykal was set to discuss in Washington the army's plan to disarm Hezbollah.

UNIFIL called Monday on Israel to stop violating resolution 1701 after the Israeli army dropped Sunday unknown chemical substances from airplanes over Lebanon.

On Sunday morning, the Israeli army informed UNIFIL that they would be carrying out an aerial activity dropping what they said was a non-toxic chemical substance over areas near the Blue Line.

President Joseph Aoun met Monday with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at La Moncloa Palace in Madrid, as he arrived in Spain to sign several bilateral agreements, amid intensified Israeli strikes on south Lebanon.

Aoun urged Spain, after his meeting with Sánchez, to pressure Israel within the European Union to commit to the implementation of a ceasefire agreement reached in November 2024.

The Israeli military dropped Sunday flyers aiming to intimidate residents in south Lebanon's Bint Jbeil near the border.

The National News Agency published a photograph of one of the alleged leaflets, which bore a warning to residents that Hezbollah operatives were using a hospital in the town.

One person was killed Monday in an Israeli drone strike on his vehicle on the Zahrani highway between Ansarieh and Sarafand, as Israel intensified its strikes on south Lebanon, despite a ceasefire and the army's deployment in the region.

Hours later, another drone strike targeted a car near al-Qlaileh in the Tyre district. The health ministry said one person was killed and four wounded in Ansarieh and four people were wounded in al-Qlaileh.

An Israeli drone on Sunday fired five missiles at a bulldozer operating at a site that was previously bombed in the southern town of Qennarit near Sidon, inuring one person.

Israeli warplanes also overflew Beirut and its suburbs and the southern region of Iqlim al-Tuffah.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil,/ stated in an interview on Al-Jadeed TV that the FPM is "much stronger outside of power."

At least 17 Israeli airstrikes targeted Friday several regions in south Lebanon, including the valley between Msayleh, Tefahta and al-Najjariyeh.

The Israeli army said it is targeted "Hezbollah infrastructure" in the South Lebanon, while local media outlets reported a series of violent strikes.

A decree setting the dates of the upcoming parliamentary elections was issued Friday in Lebanon’s official gazette, signed by President Joseph Aoun, PM Nawaf Salam and Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut and the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Friday reaffirmed that the U.S.-led Mechanism committee “remains fully in place and operational,” and that it will meet on February 25, following the latest reports about its fate.