An Israeli drone on Tuesday bombed a car in the al-Ayrouniyeh area near Tripoli, the first strike in north Lebanon since last year’s war, with the Israeli army saying the strike targeted a key Hamas member.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met Tuesday in Ain el-Tineh with Speaker Nabih Berri to discuss the general situations, the political and military developments and the outcome of U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s visit to Lebanon, the National News Agency said.

One of the Lebanese officials who met with U.S. envoy Tom Barrack on Monday has admitted that “Hezbollah is clearly trying to gain time,” MTV reported on Tuesday.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s visit to Lebanon opened the “window of diplomacy,” after a tense atmosphere that preceded his arrival in Beirut to receive the official Lebanese response to a three-point U.S. paper that most importantly contained a path leading to Hezbollah’s disarmament, a media report said.

Hezbollah has entered a state of maximum alert on its various military fronts in anticipation of a possible Israeli strike in the coming hours or days, unnamed sources told Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath channel.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and his wife MP Sethrida Geagea hosted visiting U.S. envoy Tom Barrack in Maarab for talks that were followed by a dinner meeting overnight Monday.

The Israeli army said Tuesday that its two drone strikes in south Lebanon a day earlier had killed “a commander in the Radwan Force and another Hezbollah … operative.”

President Joseph Aoun handed U.S. envoy Tom Barrack "Lebanese ideas for a comprehensive solution" regarding Hezbollah’s arms during their meeting Monday at the Baabda Palace, the Presidency said, referring to Lebanon's official response to the U.S. paper submitted by Barrack on his earlier visit.

U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack said Monday he was satisfied by the Lebanese authorities' response to a request to disarm Hezbollah, which was heavily weakened in a recent war with Israel.

"I'm unbelievably satisfied with the response," Barrack, Washington's ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, told a press conference after meeting President Joseph Aoun in Baabda.

The Israeli army launched a series of airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on Sunday evening, including in the area around the eastern city of Baalbek and in Iqlim al-Tuffah, a mountainous region overlooking large parts of southern Lebanon.