Since Israel launched a barrage of strikes on Iran last week and Iran retaliated with missile and drone attacks against Israel, neighboring countries have been in the flight path.

Outside the scope

Hezbollah political bureau member Mahmoud Qmati denied Tuesday in an interview with Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik that Hezbollah would get involved in the Iranian-Israeli war.

"Israeli reports about Hezbollah preparing to intervene are merely false pretexts to justify Israel's ongoing aggression against Lebanon," Qmati said.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent phone talks with President Joseph Aoun were part of “intensive phone diplomacy with Baabda aimed at sparing Lebanon the flames that Tel Aviv has ignited,” a media report said on Tuesday.

A civilian narrowly escaped Israeli fire on his car on the outskirts of al-Khiam in south Lebanon on Monday night as Israel dropped an incendiary bomb on the southern border town of Blida.

On Tuesday, media reports said that Israel dropped leaflets over al-Naqoura warning fishermen against fishing there, while a drone dropped a sound bomb on the coastal town.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri hinted that Israel will destroy everything and everyone in the region if it wins this war.

"There will be only Israel," he said, in remarks published Tuesday in Annahar, adding that those who are happy shouldn't be.

A civilian U.S. delegation concerned with the U.S. financing of U.N. missions visited military and political officials in Lebanon days ago with the aim of “evaluating the mission of the UNIFIL forces in the South,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Iran has few viable options for striking back at Israel, largely because its key regional proxy Hezbollah has been "decapitated," according to Fabian Hinz of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank focusing on defense and security issues.

The Houthi rebels in Yemen, another of Iran’s allies, depend on long-range Iranian missiles but supplies are limited, Hinz said.

Lebanon's president and prime minister have said that their country must stay out of the conflict between Israel and Iran because any engagement would be detrimental to the small nation engulfed in an economic crisis and struggling to recover from the latest Israel-Hezbollah war.

Their remarks Monday amounted to a message to Hezbollah — an ally of both Iran and Hamas — to stay out of the fray.

The major developments in the region, especially the Israeli-Iranian war, have reshuffled all cards in Lebanon and frozen the discussion of a number of files, most notably the handover of Palestinian weapons present in refugee camps, a process that was supposed to begin Monday from Beirut’s camps, a media report said.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Monday underscored the need to “prevent Lebanon's entanglement in any way in the ongoing war” between Israel and Iran.