Israel’s Shin Bet security agency has thwarted the activities of a “terrorist cell” operating in the occupied West Bank whose members were “directed by operatives in Lebanon,” Israeli army Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee said on Tuesday.

The Lebanon-based operatives, Mujahed Dahsha and Moussa Abou Seif, “instructed members to photograph a town in the Samaria area (West Bank) and conduct shooting drills in preparation for a planned attack,” Adraee said.

A Lebanese Forces delegation was on Tuesday meeting in Damascus with Syrian Information Minister Hamza Mustafa, MTV reported.

The delegation consisted of MP Melhem Riachi, who is a former information minister, and the LF’s foreign relations officer, Tony Darwish.

Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal has arrived in Saudi Arabia where he will hold a series of meetings, Al-Jadeed television reported.

Haykal held talks last week in the United States with senior military and political officials.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon plans to withdraw most of its troops by mid 2027, its spokesperson told AFP on Tuesday, after the peacekeepers' mandate expires this year.

UNIFIL has acted as a buffer between Israel and Lebanon for decades and has been assisting the Lebanese army as it dismantles Hezbollah infrastructure near the Israeli border after a recent war with Israel.

The United State Central Command congratulated the Lebanese Army for finding a Hezbollah tunnel in south Lebanon.

CENTCOM shared Monday a statement by its commander, Adm. Brad Cooper, on the X platform, in which he said the Lebanese army has found a massive underground tunnel for the second time in the past two months.

Diana Abadi is known in the southern suburbs of Beirut as the "Mother of Cats."

For the past 12 years, she has turned her home and shop into a refuge for abandoned felines who now number between 50 and 70, and she often sleeps beside the cats as she cares for them full time.

Rubble is all that remains of the building once home to Adnan Mardash's grocery shop in north Lebanon's Tripoli after it collapsed, killing 14 people and shining a spotlight on the impoverished city's neglect.

Mardash, 54, said he shut the small ground-floor store where he worked for more than three decades and went to his nearby home shortly before the disaster on Sunday afternoon.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has chaired a meeting with national and local officials, during which the decision was made to evacuate 114 buildings, in Tripoli, deemed to be at risk of collapse in stages over the course of a month.

The country's Higher Relief Committee will then work to reinforce the buildings that can be saved, while those that are seriously structurally unsound will be demolished, Salam told journalists after the meeting on Monday. He said a housing allowance would be provided to the evacuated families for one year.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Monday stressed that "the central problem facing Lebanon is the Israeli-American aggression."

Israeli attacks on Lebanon killed four people on Monday including a Lebanese security forces member and his child, hours after the Israeli army seized a member of Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya.

Israel frequently strikes Lebanon despite a November 2024 ceasefire aimed at ending more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah.