U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein said Monday that a diplomatic solution is key to ending nearly five months of intensifying hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.

Hezbollah central council member Sheikh Nabil Qaouq on Monday said that Hezbollah will continue its military operations against the Israeli army “in support of Gaza and to protect our people and country.”

Hezbollah repelled overnight two Israeli infiltration attempts from north Israel into south Lebanon.

The group said it targeted two Israeli forces with explosives, artillery shells and missiles as they attempted to infiltrate into Lebanese territory from Kherbet Zar'it and Wadi Qatmoun facing the southern border towns of Ramia and Rmeish.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday said “no one should drag our country into war, killing, destruction, displacement and homelessness, for no use and for issues that the Lebanese in general and our people in the Lebanese south have nothing to do with.”

Al-Rahi’s remarks, in his Sunday Mass sermon, were an apparent jab at Hezbollah, which had activated Lebanon’s southern front against Israel a day after Hamas launched its unprecedented Oct. 7 attack on south Israel.

An Israeli drone strike on a car in the southern coastal border town of Naqoura killed three Hezbollah fighters on Saturday morning, shortly after Hezbollah claimed a suicide drone attack on an Israeli command base in Liman, around seven kilometers from Lebanon's border.

The European Commission announced Friday it was clearing a 50-million-euro ($54 million) payment to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, which was under review following Israeli claims its staff participated in Hamas's October 7 attack.

Commission spokesman Eric Mamer told reporters the funds would be released "early next week" after UNRWA agreed to a "series of conditions" including an EU-led audit, with a further 32 million euros to follow later.

Army Commander General Joseph Aoun on Friday traveled to Italy at an invitation from his Italian counterpart Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the army said.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib on Friday said that Lebanon wants a “complete solution” for the border conflict with Israel.

Hezbollah said Friday it has downed an Israeli drone overnight in southern Lebanon and targeted Friday a military post and a group of Israeli soldiers in northern Israel.

The group said it has downed the drone over the al-Azziyeh valley in the Tyre district, in support of Gaza and its resistance, and targeted the al-Baghdadi post and a group of soldiers in the Ramim barracks in northern Israel.

A UNIFIL vehicle lost its way and ended up in the Beirut southern suburb of Hay al-Sellom on Thursday evening, which sparked an altercation with locals and a brief detention of the peacekeepers, media reports said.