An Israeli drone targeted Wednesday a car in the city of Sidon near the Ain el-Helweh camp, hours after another drone strike on a car in the southern town of Beit Leef killed a Hezbollah fighter.

In response to the Beit Leef strike, Hezbollah targeted the Hadb Yaroun post in northern Israel with a suicide drone and the Ramim barracks with Katyusha rockets.

Hezbollah launched Tuesday several rocket salvos at a command center in north Israel, in response to an Israeli strike that targeted a car in Deir Qanoun in the Tyre district the previous day, killing a Hezbollah fighter.

Hezbollah said in a statement it targeted a command center in Ga'aton "in response to the assassination in Deir Qanoun."

Lebanon’s permanent mission to the U.N. has filed a complaint to the Security Council over the repeated breaking of the sound barrier over the Lebanese regions by Israeli warplanes, including over the capital Beirut.

The complaint comes at the instructions of caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a “positive” meeting Monday that was conducted in “a good atmosphere,” Netanyahu’s office said in an English-language post on the X platform.

“The meeting lasted approximately three hours. The Prime Minister reiterated Israel's commitment to the current American proposal on the release of our hostages, which takes into account Israel's security needs, which he strongly insists on,” the office added.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday noted that the electricity crisis of the past two days proves that the management of the electricity sector has been a “total failure” for the past 15 years.

“There is not a single indication that this management will change, and accordingly only one solution remains: involving the private sector immediately in the process of producing electricity and distributing it across Lebanon,” Geagea said.

Palestinian militant groups Hamas and the Islamic Jihad on Monday claimed responsibility for an attempted suicide bombing that rocked Tel Aviv overnight Sunday.

In a joint statement, the two groups said suicide attacks inside Israel will continue as long as Israel continues with its massacres, assassinations and the displacement of civilians.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati told British Foreign Minister David Lammy in a call there was a "need to pressure the Israeli enemy to stop its direct targeting of southern towns and villages," after an Israeli airstrike on the Nabatieh region killed 10 Syrian civilians and wounded many others.

"The current cycle of violence may lead to an escalation with dire consequences," Mikati told Lammy, according to a statement shared by his office.

The state-run Zahrani Oil Installations overnight started pumping five million liters of fuel oil on loan to the Zahrani power plant through the supply line that connects them, a day after Lebanon’s state utility Electricité du Liban announced that its power plants had exhausted their supply of fuel oil and would stop producing electricity.

In a statement, the Installations director general said the process started after “completing all the administrative, technical and legal files,” adding that EDL’s board of directors would meet Sunday and issue a statement announcing when the power plant would become functional.

Lebanese Muay Thai fighter Omar El Halabi won the Bangkok crowd despite losing to surging Thai star Kompet Fairtex at ONE Championship’s show ONE Friday Fights 75.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday accused the caretaker government of committing “high treason” due to “what’s happening in the south.