MP Hussein al-Hajj Hassan of Hezbollah on Thursday lamented that Israel carried out several deadly attacks in south Lebanon on Wednesday while “the world and the five-member committee are standing idly by and while the Lebanese state has not done anything until the moment.”

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri met Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ain el-Tineh.

Abbas had arrived Wednesday in Beirut beginning a three-day visit to Lebanon, his first in seven years.

Irish rappers Kneecap on Thursday denied supporting a proscribed group and vowed to "vehemently defend ourselves" after a member of the band was charged with a terror offence for allegedly displaying a Hezbollah flag at a London concert.

"We deny this 'offence' and will vehemently defend ourselves. This is political policing. This is a carnival of distraction," the band said on X.

Lebanese authorities said Israeli strikes killed three people on Wednesday as Israel said it targeted Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon, the latest attacks despite a ceasefire with the Iran-backed militant group.

An "Israeli enemy drone" struck a car in Ain Baal in the Tyre region, killing one person, Lebanon's health ministry said.

Deputy U.S. Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus has a plan to get Lebanon out of its economic crisis, the diplomat said at an Economic Forum in Qatar.

"The International Monetary Fund is not the only choice," Ortagus said, adding that she has a big plan for Lebanon and a vision that allows Lebanon to become a country of investments and maybe then it would not even need the IMF loan.

Deputy U.S. Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus who is due to visit Lebanon next month will carry with her a list of U.S. conditions for Israel's complete withdrawal from south Lebanon and a halt of its attacks on the country, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper reported.

The daily said Wednesday that it has learned from prominent political sources that the U.S. has informed Lebanese officials that Ortagus will pressure Lebanon to consider joining peace accords with Israel as a pre-condition for a complete implementation of a ceasefire reached in late November.

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.