The Lebanese state has been told by influential countries, topped by the United States, that there are security “guarantees” for carrying out the municipal and mayoral elections in south Lebanon on Saturday, despite the daily Israeli attacks that the South is witnessing, the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Wednesday.

President Joseph Aoun and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that weapons should be under Lebanese state control, meeting in Baabda to discuss disarming Palestinian refugee camps in the country among other issues.

A joint statement released by the Lebanese presidency said the two leaders share the "belief that the era of weapons outside Lebanese state control has ended," adding that both had expressed commitment to the principle that arms should be exclusively "in the hands of the Lebanese state."

Israeli strikes on two different locations in south Lebanon killed two people Wednesday, the latest attacks despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

An Israeli enemy drone struck a car in the southern town of Ain Baal in the coastal district of Tyre and few hours later another drone targeted a car in the southern town of Yater.

The issue of Palestinian arms in Lebanon might be the “last” topic on the agenda of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to Lebanon this week, a Beirut-based Palestinian official said on Tuesday.

Lebanon still has "more" to do in disarming Hezbollah following the war between the Iran-backed group and Israel, Deputy U.S. Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus said Tuesday.

As part of a deal agreed to end 14 months of fighting last November, Hezbollah was to withdraw its fighters north of Lebanon's Litani River, while Israel was to pull all its forces from south Lebanon.

Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar visited Sidon on Tuesday and hoped the municipal and mayoral elections in the South on Saturday will be an occasion for the state to “restore its presence and stress its sovereignty in the South.”

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri seemed to be satisfied with the results of the municipal elections in the capital Beirut in an interview with local news portal al-Modon.

"We have secured parity in a way that is no longer acceptable to call Amal and Hezbollah a Shiite Duo but a National Duo," Berri told al-Modon in remarks published Tuesday.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement’s former Beirut coordinator Mahmoud al-Jamal, a retired brigadier general, has managed to clench a seat on Beirut’s new municipal council, preventing a list comprising most political parties from winning all 24 seats.

An Israeli drone targeted on Tuesday morning a motorcycle in south Lebanon near a school in Mansouri in the Tyre district, injuring nine people, three of them critically.

The Health Ministry said nine people were injured in the strike on the al-Mansouri-Majdal Zoun road, including two children, adding that three of the injured were in critical condition.

At least one person was killed on Monday and three others wounded by Israeli attacks on multiple locations across southern Lebanon, authorities said, despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.