Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that Israel’s airstrikes on the Bekaa earlier in the day were a “clear message” to Hezbollah and Lebanon’s government, accusing Hezbollah of plotting to restore its Radwan force’s ground incursion capabilities.

Israeli warplanes on Tuesday carried out strikes on the Wadi Faara area in northern Bekaa, one of them targeting a Syrian refugee camp, killing 12 people, including seven Syrians, and wounding eight others, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.

A security source told Reuters that the dead include five Hezbollah fighters.

The army said on Monday it raided a major captagon factory in the northeastern Baalbek province near neighboring Syria, previously the largest exporter of the amphetamine-like narcotic.

President Joseph Aoun on Monday pledged to preserve Lebanon’s territorial integrity, in the wake of the storm of controversy sparked by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s latest remarks about Lebanon and Syria.

Lebanon is still waiting for the U.S. response to its “dual” response to U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s paper, which according to ministerial sources is not expected to be very imminent, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper said.

Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat urged Monday the Syrian government to find a political solution, after dozens of people were killed in fighting between Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters in Syria’s Sweida province.

"We reject calls for external protection and Israeli intervention," Jumblat stated, as he hoped for the return of security and stability to Sweida. "We are in contact with the Syrian government," the Druze leader told local Annahar newspaper.

MP Ibrahim al-Moussawi of Hezbollah said U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s latest remarks about Lebanon risking being swallowed by regional forces were “not surprising at all,” accusing Washington of having “evil plots.”

He added that Barrack’s “bizarre” statement “contradicts with the simplest rules of logic and the principles of politics and diplomacy,” adding that it reflects “dangerous intentions and clearly unveils the features of the American-Zionist scheme planned for the region in general and Lebanon in particular.”

Contacts took place between the Lebanese state and the U.S. Embassy in Beirut following the latest controversy sparked by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s remarks about Lebanon being swallowed by regional forces, especially Syria, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Monday.

Kataeb leader Sami Gemayel filed Monday a complaint against Faisal Shukr, a senior Hezbollah official in the Bekaa region.

The complaint alleges that Shukr's public speech on July 6, 2025, during Hezbollah's Ashoura procession, included direct threats to kill those who call for disarming the party, incitement to violence, and sectarian rhetoric.

Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Youssef Saud Al-Sabah on Monday held meetings with President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri.