In a notable judicial development, First Investigative Judge of the North Samaranda Nassar has listened to ex-energy minister Walid Fayad as a witness in the case of the Msaylha dam project.

As UNIFIL today, Wednesday completed 47 years of its establishment, its head and Force Commander, Lieutenant General Aroldo Lázaro, called for looking forward with hope following the recent devastating conflict.

Lázaro said the peacekeeping mission remains committed to easing tensions and fostering dialogue towards a permanent ceasefire.

A video circulating online shows a number of Hezbollah supporters calling Lebanese troops “traitors” and “Israeli agents” as the Lebanese Army deploys in the Lebanese part of the Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali town on Syria’s border.

The crowd, surrounded by Lebanese gunmen from the region, also chanted “At your service, Nasrallah!”, in reference to slain Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in September as Israel began an all-out war on Lebanon.

President Joseph Aoun on Wednesday stressed the need to consolidate the ceasefire on Syria’s border.

The Lebanese Army on Wednesday entered the Lebanese part of the border town of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali after Syrian forces withdrew from it, the National News Agency said.

Lebanon’s state news agency said a U.N. peacekeeper was wounded when a landmine exploded in the country's south.

National News Agency did not give further details about the blast between the villages of Zibqine and Yater, near the border with Israel.

Hezbollah on Tuesday said it “fully and firmly” stands by “the valiant Palestinian resistance and Gaza’s honorable people,” after Israel resumed its war on Gaza and killed more than 400 people in less than 12 hours.

Moreover, Hezbollah called on “what’s left of the free international community, the U.N., the Security Council and legal and humanitarian organizations” to urgently act to “stop this continued crime against humanity.”

Nearly 13,000 Syrians fled across the borders to Lebanon since sectarian massacres on the Syrian coast earlier this month, Lebanese authorities said on Tuesday.

A report from Lebanon's Disaster Risk Management Unit obtained by AFP said 12,798 Syrians had arrived and settled in 23 different villages and towns in Lebanon's northern Akkar region, adding that most were living in family homes or makeshift accommodation centers.

U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has said that his administration is not satisfied with “the Lebanese officials’ performance in dealing with Hezbollah,” stressing that Washington “rejects this approach of maneuvering and jockeying which has not achieved what’s needed,” Annahar newspaper quoted an unnamed Lebanese figure as saying in remarks published Tuesday.

Speaker Nabih Berri was “dismayed” by the latest clashes on the Lebanese-Syrian border, fearing that they “may turn into a sectarian war, whereas they are a conflict over smuggling routes in the first place,” a media report said.