Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Thursday that the three drones that Hezbollah launched toward the disputed Karish gas field on Saturday were Iranian.

“Hezbollah used unmanned aerial vehicles made in Iran," Gantz said as he accused Hezbollah of carrying out missions for Iran.

The Israeli army has claimed that it had detected and shot down another Hezbollah drone last week.

“The army detected last Wednesday a drone heading towards Israel’s economic waters from the Lebanese side," Israeli army Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee said Wednesday evening in a tweet.

President Michel Aoun has reassured that the sea border negotiations between Lebanon and Israel “will be finalized soon” and that “the solution will satisfy everyone.”

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab has said that there is a chance to finalize the sea border demarcation negotiations during the remaining few months of President Michel Aoun’s term.

“We have a chance to achieve that within two months to pave the way for returning to Naqoura,” Bou Saab said in an interview with the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper.

With support from the Lebanon Trade and Investment Facilitation (TIF) activity, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Toters -- the leading Lebanese marketplace, e-grocery, and delivery app -- raised $18 million in equity investment from international and local investors.

The TIF activity supported the investment readiness of Toters by providing valuation analysis, facilitating investor outreach, and conducting deep-dive market analysis. This USAID-supported transaction sets the stage for Toters’ growth plans and enables the company to scale operations and expand in local and regional markets, a statement issued by TIF said.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has hinted that Hezbollah’s launching of three unarmed drones towards the Karish gas field on Saturday was not the first such activity, mentioning that there had been “multiple attacks.”

The UK Minister for the Armed Forces, James Heappey MP, conducted a one-day visit to Lebanon yesterday. This was Minister Heappey’s first visit to Lebanon where he saw first-hand how UK projects support the Lebanese Armed Forces in “their mission to maintain stability across Lebanon,” the British embassy said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil announced Tuesday that There is “a big chance for a real solution” in the file of the sea border negotiations with Israel.

“The FPM is fully with seizing this chance and the dispute gap is narrowing, but the (Israeli) answers are still unclear,” Bassil said after a meeting for the Strong Lebanon bloc.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has stressed that he does not want to become the president of an “inexistent republic.”

“Being an ordinary citizen in a serious and strong state is better than being the president of an inexistent republic,” Geagea said in an interview with Euronews, when asked whether he might stop criticizing Hezbollah’s arms in order to become president.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday accused Hezbollah of “jeopardizing stability in the region” and warned that Israel “will not stand idly by in the face of any attacks,” three days after the Iran-backed party launched three drones towards the Karish offshore gas field.

“We will not turn a blind eye to Iran's arming of Hezbollah with missiles and drones,” Lapid added at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron following talks at the Elysee.