An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed a young motorcyclist on Friday, Lebanese state media reported, the latest attack despite a truce in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

President Joseph Aoun on Friday assured a Lebanese Forces delegation led by party leader Samir Geagea that he “will not back down from the decision to negotiate” with Israel, while insisting that he will give explanations to the Lebanese people.

President Joseph Aoun has said that "as long as Hezbollah’s allegiance is to Iran, there will be no progress.”

President Joseph Aoun is preparing a comprehensive file ahead of his pivotal talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, including Lebanon's requests for international economic aid and a reconstruction fund - under the exclusive supervision of the Lebanese state, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper reported Friday.

Aoun would also request additional support for the Lebanese Armed Forces.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday stressed that "Lebanon cannot remain in limbo,” adding that “Israel must withdraw from the south, and reconstruction must begin, but a functioning state is essential for all of this to happen."

After weeks of stagnation, a U.S.-brokered framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel soon will shift to technical discussions in Rome, an American official said.

The upcoming meeting in Rome on July 14 and 15 will address Israeli demands to form joint committees to oversee the implementation of the agreement. These would include separate committees for political affairs, security, and the management of so-called "good neighborly relations," pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper reported Friday.

Israeli strikes targeted Friday a pickup truck on the outskirts of Kounine-Kfardjal, wounding two people, and a car in Kfar Rumman.

Later in the day, another strike hit Kfar Rumman again and Israeli artillery shelled the southern town of Deir Seryan.

The United States will oversee the withdrawal of Israeli forces from "pilot zones" in the south, with the first to get underway within days, Lebanese and U.S. officials said Thursday.

A U.S. official said that new talks between Israel and Lebanon would go ahead next week, after a diplomatic source earlier told AFP that Lebanon had demanded an Israeli pullout from the zones before taking part.

A deal between Lebanon and Israel was billed as paving the way for peace. But in Lebanon, it is deepening longtime divisions and raising fears of political paralysis or even a return to civil war.

The U.S.-brokered deal envisions an Israeli troop withdrawal from Lebanon and an eventual peace agreement between the two countries — which technically remain in a state of war nearly 80 years after Israel's establishment. But the agreement says a full Israeli withdrawal will happen only after Hezbollah is disarmed, infuriating the Iran-backed militant group.

President Joseph Aoun has said that he wants to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump because he wants the Lebanese issue to “remain on the American agenda.”

“We want to solidify its position there,” Aoun said in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.