Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Sunday called on Hezbollah to hand over its arms to the Lebanese state instead of criticizing it over Israel's attacks and the stalled reconstruction efforts.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said Sunday that one of its members was wounded by an Israeli grenade dropped near a U.N. position in the country's south, the third incident of its kind in just over a month.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned Israel on Saturday for carrying out overnight strikes on civilian facilities that the health ministry said killed at least one person.

"Once again, southern Lebanon has been the target of a heinous Israeli aggression against civilian installations -- without justification or pretext," Aoun said.

Israel carried out intense airstrikes on southern Lebanon early Saturday, killing one person, wounding seven and briefly cutting a highway that links Beirut with parts of south Lebanon, the Health Ministry said.

The pre-dawn airstrikes on the village of Msayleh struck a place that sold heavy machinery, destroying a large number of vehicles.

General Security announced Friday that it has busted an Israel-linked spy cell that was plotting “bombings and assassinations” in Lebanon.

A United Nations rapporteur on Friday said an Israeli attack on south Lebanon on October 13, 2023, that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded others including two from AFP was a war crime.

Morris Tidball-Binz, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, told a press conference in Beirut that it was "a premeditated, targeted and double-tapped attack from the Israeli forces, a clear violation, in my opinion, of IHL (international humanitarian law), a war crime."

Hezbollah MP Ali Fayyad has lamented that the performance of the Lebanese state over the past year “has not led to any result” in the face of Israel, which is still carrying out deadly strikes and occupying Lebanese territory, calling for a “reevaluation.”

“The Lebanese state is not mobilizing its diplomatic tools and political capabilities and it is not managing its negotiation stance in a way that seriously confronts the hostile Israeli actions,” Fayyad decried.

During its session held yesterday at the Grand Serail, the Lebanese cabinet tasked the Ministry of Justice with studying the legal options available to prosecute Israel for attacks committed against journalists while performing their professional duties, particularly the killing of Lebanese journalist Issam Abdallah and his companions.

This decision was based on a cabinet decision dated April 26, 2024 regarding the report of the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (NTO) on the circumstances surrounding the martyrdom of Abdallah, and another cabinet decision dated May 28, 2024, which requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants to include the report in the complaint submitted by Lebanon to the United Nations in this regard.

President Joseph Aoun and First Lady Nehmat Aoun on Friday visited Amani Bazzi Sharara, the mother who lost three of her children and her husband in an Israeli drone strike in Bint Jbeil on September 21.

The mother has been receiving treatment at the American University of Beirut Medical Center in Hamra.

Ain el-Tineh sources hit back overnight at remarks by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam about the government’s performance in war-hit south Lebanon, saying that the situation there is obvious and that the public opinion can easily judge it.

Salam had voiced surprise over statements by Berri, who said that “the government does not care about our people in the South.”