Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has noted that “it’s not Hezbollah that will decide the end of the war in Lebanon and the south, but rather Israel and Hamas, which are negotiating.”

“Hezbollah considers that it is achieving something by assisting Gaza, but we do not agree to this,” Bassil added, in an interview on RT Arabic.

A Lebanese security source said four Hezbollah members were killed Thursday in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in the country's south, the latest such raid in months of cross-border hostilities.

Hezbollah for its part targeted newly installed electronic systems in the Ramia post as it announced the deaths of three of its members.

Hezbollah has declared general mobilization to be prepared should Israel decide to expand the war on Lebanon, after the Israeli army seized control of the Rafah border crossing in Gaza, Shiite Duo sources have said.

“International sides have not ruled out that Israel might expand the war as a preventative step, in order to prevent Hezbollah from repeating what Hamas did with its invasion of the Israeli settlements in the Gaza envelope area,” the sources told the Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has delivered Lebanon’s response to the French paper related to resolving the border conflict between Lebanon and Israel, Berri’s aide MP Ali Hassan Khalil has said.

Khalil said the response has been handed to the French embassy in Beirut.

Hezbollah attacked Wednesday northern Israel with missiles and explosive-laden drones.

Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged regular cross-border fire since Palestinian militant group Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack on southern Israel sparked war in the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah attacked Tuesday northern Israel with suicide drones.

The group said its drones targeted soldiers in the Yiftah barracks, inflicting casualties, while other drones hit an Iron Dome platform in the Ramot Naftali barracks, damaging it.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the May 7, 2008 clashes with a post on the X platform.

“Beirut and its resilient and patient people will remain defiant in the face of every tyrant,” Hariri said.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has stressed that his party’s stance on the issue of “illegal Syrian presence in Lebanon” is “a firm, principled and sovereign stance.”

“It does not change with a billion euros or tens of billions, nor with an international request or appeal, seeing as anyone who is illegal cannot continue to exist on Lebanese soil and this matter is not subject to discussion,” Geagea added.

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The Israeli army said Tuesday that two soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah Monday attack on a post near Metula in northern Israel.

Master Sgt. (res.) Dan Kamkagi, 31, from Kfar Oranim, and Master Sgt. (res) Nahman Natan Hertz, 31, from Elazar, who served in the 551st Brigade’s 6551st Battalion, were killed after Israel's defense forces failed, to intercept an explosive drone.