The Israeli army said Wednesday that it shot down two drones launched by Hezbollah overnight in Ali al-Taher.

Overnight into Wednesday, violent shelling and airstrikes targeted al-Qantara, Beit Yahoun, Kfar Rumman, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Arab Salim, al-Mansouri and the Ali al-Taher ridge.

The EU is looking to launch a mission to train the Lebanese army in the coming months -- but it said it would not replace the U.N. peacekeeping force.

The United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL, has roughly 7,500 personnel from nearly 50 countries, and has been in place since 1978.

Israel is “dissatisfied” with the Lebanese Army’s performance so far in the so-called “pilot zones” in south Lebanon – a U.S.-backed mechanism that began about a month and a half ago, Israel’s public broadcaster reported.

Marking the anniversary of the declaration of Greater Lebanon, President Joseph Aoun called Tuesday for an immediate halt to conflict, a renewed commitment to national sovereignty, and the rebuilding of strong state institutions to revive the country's economy.

"The true challenge today lies in ending wars, safeguarding sovereignty, moving toward building the state and its institutions, and revitalizing the economy and business sector," Aoun said. "This can only be achieved through a collective return to the state, which alone serves as the sole authority for all Lebanese — united by the National Pact as an inclusive foundation that preserves diversity within unity."

A Lebanese boy succumbed to his wounds after an unexploded Israeli ordnance detonated in the southern village of Haboush, the National News Agency said.

Mohammad Ali Ibrahim, whose father Ali Ibrahim was previously killed in an Israeli attack on southern Lebanon, was injured on Monday alongside another child when a bomb left behind by Israeli forces exploded in Haboush.

Israeli strikes and artillery shelling targeted overnight into Tuesday the southern border town of al-Mansouri and the outskirts of Hadatha and Baraashit.

Nearby in Zawtar al-Sharqiyeh, Dhaira and Kfar Remman, the Israeli army carried out strikes and detonations while dropping flare bombs and white phosphorus.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday again lashed out at the framework agreement that was signed in June between Lebanon and Israel.

“The current stage, with its existential risks, does not grant anyone the right to act on any of the sovereign titles under any pretext, whether a framework agreement or secret appendices or otherwise,” said Berri in an annual speech marking the anniversary of Imam Moussa al-Sadr’s disappearance.

Iraqi researcher, historian, and media figure Hamid Abdullah has presented on his YouTube channel highly sensitive details about the alleged final hours of revered Lebanese Shiite cleric Imam Moussa al-Sadr and his companions in Libya in 1978, claiming the presence of documents related to the imam’s disappearance that are supposedly still in Iraq.

An Israeli security source stated that Israel is monitoring the Syrian front, emphasizing that it "will not allow hostile forces to establish a presence on the border."

The source added that Israel is working to fortify its border defenses by "increasing the number of town protection units and arming them."

What is happening in south Lebanon is dangerous and no one can stop the advance of the Israeli military machine, a Lebanese official said.