The Israeli military on Monday accused U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon of shooting down one of its drones a day earlier during an intelligence-gathering mission.

"Yesterday, an IDF intelligence-gathering drone was downed in the area of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon during a routine intelligence-gathering activity in the area," military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said on X.

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus, who is currently in Israel, will visit Lebanon from Monday to Wednesday, media reports said.

The reports said Ortagus will meet with President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam and will take part in a meeting for the ceasefire committee, known as the Mechanism, on Wednesday.

Lebanon's health ministry said two people were killed and another wounded in two Israeli strikes on the country's south Saturday, the latest attacks despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

An Israeli drone strike on Saturday targeted a car in the southern town of Harouf, killing one person and wounding another.

European sources have warned in remarks to Sky News Arabia that a large-scale Israeli strike against Lebanon may only be a matter of time.

The sources added that it is unclear whether Israel will treat the Lebanese state as “a complicit or a failure.”

Israeli military officials have warned that they are still not prepared to enter a multi-front war without an urgent budget increase to rebuild their forces and compensate for weapons shortages, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

U.S. General Joseph Clearfield, the new chief of the U.S.-led ceasefire monitoring committee, has vowed to exert efforts to prevent military escalation between Israel and Lebanon, expressing a clear desire to activate the committee’s work and meetings, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported.

Clearfield had met Thursday with President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, in meetings described as “positive and carrying a new spirit in terms of serious work and exerting a bigger efforts in the coming period,” informed ministerial sources told the daily.

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Friday made an inspection visit to south Lebanon aboard a UNIFIL helicopter, in which he assessed the destruction of border villages at the hands of Israel and inspected the Blue Line and the five points occupied by the Israelis.

Rajji also visited UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura on the occasion of the U.N.’s 80th establishment anniversary, lauding the U.N. force’s role in maintaining peace and stability in south Lebanon.

Lebanese journalist Sami kleib warned Friday that Israel would escalate its targeted assassinations and its attacks in Lebanon in the coming days, but ruled out the possibility of a full-scale war.

Kleib said he has obtained information confirming that Israel will expand its attacks on Hezbollah and on regions that support the group and will intensify its targeting of military and political Hezbollah officials.

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus will preside over the meeting of the Mechanism ceasefire committee in her visit to Lebanon in the next few days, informed sources said.

“She will stress the need for Lebanon’s full commitment to the ceasefire agreement, through Hezbollah’s withdrawal from the South Litani area, the handover of all its arms to the Lebanese state, and the halt of all its military activities, in order to avoid any possible Israeli military action,” the sources told the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal.