President Joseph Aoun stressed Wednesday that "it is impossible to live outside the framework of the state, as experience has proven," warning that "anything else is a sin" against the country.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Wednesday that Israel's attacks on Syria and Lebanon have started to represent a threat to Turkey.

Israeli strikes targeted Wednesday the southern city of Tyre and other towns and villages in south Lebanon including Tayrdebba, Nsariyeh, al-Majadel, Srifa, Bazourieh, Deir Qanoun, Kfar Remman, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Kfardounine, Ghassaniyeh and Bnaafoul.

The Israeli army targeted a car in Dweir and issued evacuation orders for Ghassaniyeh, Houmine al-Fawqa, and Nsariyeh.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa revealed Tuesday that Washington will present a written paper to Speaker Nabih Berri regarding the so-called pilot zones in south Lebanon, where the Lebanese Army would take control from Israel's occupying forces.

"He told me that he would then accept the pilot zones," Issa said in an interview with MTV.

Let Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem "tell me what he wants. Does he want to fight? Let him go and fight; we've seen the results," President Joseph Aoun has said, according to his visitors.

In remarks to the al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, the visitors said Aoun dismissed reports of contacts between U.S. President Donald Trump and Hezbollah.

The Israeli army on Tuesday said its forces killed a gunman who had managed to infiltrate Israeli territory from Lebanon and opened fire on its troops.

The Israeli army's withdrawal from south Lebanon would enable the Lebanese state to "extend its authority, end armed appearances and eliminate any justification for the persistence of weapons other than those of legitimate authorities and their armed forces," President Joseph Aoun said on Tuesday.

Israel's security cabinet has decided that any Hezbollah rocket on Israel will be met with an attack on Beirut's southern suburbs without the need for prior political approval, Israel's Channel 14 reported on Tuesday.

An Israeli airstrike on the southern city of Tyre before an Israeli military warning on Tuesday killed at least eight people and wounded 32 others.

The state-run National News Agency (NNA) had reported the strike not long before Israel's military issued an evacuation warning for the entire city and surrounding areas ahead of strikes there.

Israel's extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for escalating measures against Lebanon, proposing the occupation of territory and "the arrest of women and young men," during a meeting of the security cabinet on Monday evening.