Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Friday accused the Lebanese government of "handing" the country to Israel by pushing for the group's disarmament, warning it would fight to keep its weapons.

Qassem spoke in a televised address several hours after meeting Iran's top security chief Ali Larijani, whose country has long backed the Lebanese armed group.

An Israeli drone targeted Thursday an excavator in the southern town of Yaroun as Israeli forces infiltrated Wadi Hounin, entering two Lebanese houses near Adeisseh.

Israel has kept up its strikes on Lebanon despite a November ceasefire that sought to end over a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, including two months of all-out war.

Chief of Staff of Israel's army Eyal Zamir who visited Wednesday a post in south Lebanon said Israel is in a "multifront war" not just with Gaza but also in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.

"This morning, we approved plans for the conquest of Gaza, and now we are in Lebanon," he said.

Environment Minister Tamara al-Zein of the Amal Movement has revealed in an interview on Al-Jadeed TV that “the cabinet session in which the Lebanese Army will present its plan” for monopolizing arms across the country “will be held on September 2.”

MP Melhem Riachi of the Lebanese Forces has said that the Lebanese Army’s plan to monopolize arms across the country will “surprise everyone.”

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has met with Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Lebanon, who began a visit to Lebanon on Wednesday, Hezbollah said in a statement.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Thursday emphasized that Lebanon will outsurvive Israel.

An Israeli military official has said that “there is a chance to create a better situation in Lebanon and Syria if it does not get wasted due to hatred.”

Army Commander General Rodolph Haykal has told Speaker Nabih Berri that he does not want to clash with Hezbollah, in a meeting Tuesday at Ain el-Tineh, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newpaper reported.

Al-Akhbar said Wednesday that it has learned from prominent sources that the meeting with Berri was "positive" and that Haykal has told both Berri and Hezbollah that Hezbollah's disarmament requires dialogue and understanding and that the disarmament plan "cannot be implemented by force."

Iran's Supreme National Security Council chief Ali Larijani advised the Lebanese to preserve the resistance and accused the United States of "ordering" the Lebanese government to implement "a foreign plan", as he met Wednesday with President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Larijani's visit to Lebanon comes after the Lebanese government ordered the army to devise plans to disarm Hezbollah.