Israel's military said it killed a Hezbollah militant in a strike on south Lebanon on Wednesday, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed group.

President Joseph Aoun and Hezbollah “have started to exchange positive messages” aimed at reassuring the group and “dispelling its concerns as well as its suspicion over the election of Aoun as president,” Lebanese political sources said.

Calm returned gradually to the northern city of Tripoli after a tense night that witnessed protests and shooting in the air over a delay in the release the results of the municipal elections that were held on Sunday.

An Israeli drone strike on Tuesday targeted a motorcycle in the southern town of Houla, killing one person, the Health Ministry said.

Israel's military still carries out regular strikes in Lebanon, saying it is targeting Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure despite a ceasefire deal reached in November following a 66-day war.

A U.S. State Department official told Al-Arabiya TV on Tuesday that stability in Lebanon affects the entire region.

“There is a historic chance for Lebanon to move forward and we will support that,” the official added.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has urged Lebanon's government and the international community to act "more effectively" to make Israel comply with the November truce, which largely ended more than a year of hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed group, including two months of all-out war.

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon has reported that armed activities by Israeli forces north of the Blue Line -- the U.N.-drawn boundary -- violate a Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in the latest incident a peacekeeping patrol reported that 10 Israeli soldiers crossed north of the Blue Line on Monday near Alma al-Shaab.

The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon said that since a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah it had uncovered more than 225 weapons caches in the south and referred them to the army.

President Joseph Aoun may attend a meeting in Saudi Arabia with U.S. President Donald Trump, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Syrian interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, media reports said.

President Joseph Aoun on Monday stressed the need to activate Lebanese-Kuwaiti relations and develop them in all fields, during a meeting in Kuwait with the Gulf country’s emir Sheikh Mishaal al-Ahmed Al-Sabah.