The Lebanese Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned Israel’s massive attack on Iran as a “flagrant violation of national sovereignty and international law and a breach of the U.N. Charter.”

The Lebanese Army has communicated with Hezbollah as part of “holding onto the Lebanese principles and refusing that Lebanon be dragged into any confrontation,” governmental sources told Al-Jadeed TV, after Israel launched a massive attack on Iran.

President Joseph Aoun said in a statement that Israel’s attack on Iran “did not only target the Iranian people, but also all international efforts exerted to maintain stability in the Middle East and neighboring countries and avoid escalation therein.”

He called for “the international community to take effective and swift action to prevent Israel from achieving its goals.”

Emirates airline said flights to and from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Iran had been cancelled, after Israel launched strikes on Iran on Friday, sparking concerns of a wider escalation.

Several flights scheduled for Friday and one Tehran flight on Saturday were listed as cancelled on the airline's website, with the Dubai international airport also reporting that "some flights at @DXB and DWC - Al Maktoum International have been cancelled or delayed due to airspace closures over Iran, Iraq, and Syria" in a statement on X.

A wave of Israeli airstrikes targeted several areas deep in south Lebanon on Thursday evening, as Israeli drones overflew Beirut's southern suburbs.

The strikes hit the al-Rihan heights in the Jezzine district, the Tebna area in the Sidon district and the outskirts of the Jezzine district town of al-Aishiyeh, which is President Joseph Aoun's hometown. Strikes also targeted the West Bekaa area of al-Srayra.

An Israeli drone strike targeted Thursday a motorcycle in the southern town of Deir Seryan.

The Health Ministry one person was injured in the strike.

In his latest meeting with Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi relayed a message from Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei that “Hezbollah should observe vigilance and caution and adapt to the new situation in the region,” sources close to Hezbollah said.

The Lebanese Army headed Thursday to Beirut's southern suburbs to inspect a building at the request of the five-member committee supervising the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, media reports said.

On Wednesday, Army forces bulldozed the site of a building they had searched Tuesday at the request of the committee in the densely populated Sainte-Therese street in Hadath in Beirut's southern suburbs. The building had been targeted by an Israeli strike during the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.

UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti denied Thursday in an interview with Al-Jadeed an alleged agreement between the U.S. and Israel to end the peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, calling such reports "rumors."

Tenenti stressed that UNIFIL's commitment to support the Lebanese Army, urging the Israeli military to withdraw from Lebanese territory.

A dispute between Speaker Nabih Berri and Justice Minister Adel Nassar of the Kataeb Party is still delaying the new judicial appointments, sources told Al-Jadeed TV overnight.