An Israeli soldier was killed and an officer was wounded Wednesday when their military vehicle flipped over in the occupied Shebaa Farms, the Israeli army said.

Earlier in the day, two shells landed in the occupied Farms after being fired during an Israeli drill in the Golan Heights, sparking fires in the area and prompting Israel to scramble firefighting vehicles.

Lebanon recorded a significant tally of 124 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry announced Wednesday evening.

In its daily statement, the Ministry said 115 of the cases were recorded among residents and nine among expats.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab met Wednesday at the Grand Serail with U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea.

The National News Agency said the talks tackled “the government’s efforts to address the economic and social crisis and the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.”

French President Emmanuel Macron will unveil a "comprehensive plan" to assist Lebanon, a French diplomatic source said on Wednesday.

The plan “might include the opening of lines of credit,” the source told Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath TV.

The AMAL Movement-led Development and Liberation parliamentary bloc warned Wednesday that any attempt to revise U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 -- which ended the 2006 war between Hizbullah and Israel -- would represent "tampering with the region's security" and "a blatant attempt to plunge it into the unknown."

Motorists queued at fuel stations across the country on Wednesday amid a renewed gasoline and diesel shortage crisis linked to the scarcity of U.S. dollars in the country.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Wednesday revealed that he intends to call for “an inclusive dialogue meeting that doesn’t exclude anyone” regarding his call for Lebanon’s neutrality.

“Neutrality is at the heart of the Lebanese composition and history,” the patriarch said during a meeting with MP Antoine Habshi of the Lebanese Forces and a delegation from Deir al-Ahmar and other Baalbek-Hermel villages and towns.

Lebanon’s Customs Department and Minister of Health Hamad Hassan on Tuesday confiscated around 40 tons of expired chicken in warehouses in the Metn town of Zikrit.

Shiite cleric Sayyed Ali al-Amine stressed after talks with Maronite Patriarch Beshara el-Rahi on Wednesday, that neutrality makes Lebanon an independent and sovereign state capable of imposing its authority on all Lebanon’s territory, and rejected the logic of “seeking power in majority.”

The "political-financial system" controlling the country has reportedly worked "with all its might" to "thwart" the plan to recover stolen and smuggled funds outside Lebanon when depositors were prevented from obtaining their money from banks, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.