An Israeli drone struck Friday a car in the southern town of Toul, a day after Israeli strikes in eastern and southern Lebanon killed four people, including an elderly woman.

Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon despite a November ceasefire, which brought to an end more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah that culminated in two months of open war.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he knew everything about the Israeli pagers' attack that targeted Hezbollah's pagers and walkie-talkies, killing 42 people and injuring 4,000, including children and civilians.

The attack on 17 and 18 September 2024 was part of an Israeli operation against Hezbollah, which had started firing rockets into Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians following the Oct. 7 attack.

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert

Statement marked Friday the United Nations 80th anniversary, urging the Lebanese people to be patient amid "uncertain times".

Four people were killed in Israeli air strikes in eastern and southern Lebanon on Thursday, according to the country's health ministry, with the Israeli military saying it had attacked Hezbollah targets.

The ministry reported that strikes in mountainous areas in the east "resulted in an initial death toll of two" people.

Lebanon is being warned by western and Arab officials about a possible Israeli escalation if the army fails to disarm Hezbollah, al-Akhbar newspaper said Thursday.

The pro-Hezbollah daily claimed that Lebanese authorities have been told that "Lebanon is on the verge of a very dangerous and highly critical phase" and that "Israel will not remain idle for long" if the Lebanese state does not implement its disarmament plan, but a western diplomat told local al-Joumhouria newspaper that he sees no signs of a wide war.

There is constant communication between France and Saudi Arabia to explore means to “support Lebanon’s security and stability and exert diplomatic efforts with the Americans to compel Israel to halt its attacks on Lebanon, withdraw and stop escalation on the border,” informed sources told al-Binaa newspaper.

The daily added that President Joseph Aoun is holding talks with U.S. officials to record Lebanon’s rejection of the Israeli attacks and urge the U.S. to press Israel to “withdraw, halt violations and re-activate the ceasefire agreement and the monitoring committee.”

Agence France-Presse renewed its call on Thursday on Israel to conduct a full investigation into an attack in 2023 that killed a Reuters journalist in Lebanon and wounded several others, two of them from AFP.

On October 13, 2023, an attack killed Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded six other journalists, including AFP reporters Dylan Collins and Christina Assi, who had to have her right leg amputated.

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus will visit Israel next Sunday in diplomatic efforts aimed at "maintaining the ceasefire and preventing Hezbollah from rearming in Lebanon," Israeli media reports said.

The report said that Ortagus would discuss in Israel possible approaches that might be adopted to ensure Hezbollah does not rearm in South Lebanon.

In a regular media briefing, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Pascal Confavreux called on Israel to fully respect its commitments under the ceasefire and withdraw from its five positions in southern Lebanon.

"France has stood by Lebanon for many months, and we are doing everything in our power to preserve the November 27, 2024 agreement. Regarding the Israeli strikes, we condemn in the strongest terms all strikes that kill civilians,” he added.

The latest Israeli military maneuvers on the northern front are aimed at “implementing defense and moving to offense,” an Israeli military official told Al-Arabiya on Thursday.

“We are dealing any immediate threat in Lebanon in a direct manner,” the official said, adding that “any Hezbollah activity along the frontier is being monitored.”