Israel hurled at dawn on Saturday more than 30 flare bombs near the Lebanese border mainly over the towns of Ghajar, Shebaa and Kfar Shuba heights, the National News Agency reported.

The Israeli attack in the southern suburbs of Beirut highlighted a “split” between the government and Hizbullah over ways to respond to the breach, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday.

Hizbullah's al-Manar television said Friday that two drones used in the suspected Israeli attack in Beirut's southern suburbs were flown from Israeli gunboats off the Lebanese coast.

Al-Manar's report came five days after an alleged Israeli drone crashed in a Hizbullah stronghold while another exploded and crashed nearby.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday told French President Emmanuel Macron that "those who provide shelter for aggression and arming" will not be spared, in an apparent reference to Lebanon and Israel’s claims that Iran and Hizbullah are building missile production facilities on Lebanese soil.

In a phone call initiated by the French leader, Netanyahu said that Iran was stepping up its aggression in the region, the Israeli PM’s office said.

A Hizbullah official said Friday that his group’s anticipated retaliation against Israel will take place deep inside Israel.

“The stance of Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has pushed the Zionist enemy to live in a state of extreme terror, panic and caution, to an extent that it has started hiding behind dummies in its military vehicles,” ex-MP Mohammed Yaghi, who is Nasrallah’s executive aide, said.

The head of the Association of Banks in Lebanon, Salim Sfeir, on Friday reassured that “no other Lebanese banks” will be targeted by U.S. sanctions, after Washington sanctioned Lebanon’s Jammal Trust Bank over alleged Hizbullah transactions.

Speaking after a meeting with President Michel Aoun in Baabda, Sfeir said the Association is “studying the U.S. decision regarding Jammal Trust Bank,” while stressing that “the interests and rights of all depositors will be preserved.”

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Friday held phone talks with U.N. chief Antonio Guterres over the latest Israeli drone attack in Beirut’s southern suburbs, his office said.

“He stressed to him that Israel bears the full responsibility for its unjustified attack on a densely inhabited area in Beirut’s suburbs, which is the first of its kind since 2006, in addition to its repeated violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701,” Hariri’s office said in a statement.

Interior Minister Raya el-Hasan discussed, with a delegation from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees led by Mireille Girard, issues related to Syrian refugees in Lebanon particularly birth registration for the displaced, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

Turkey's foreign minister said Friday that an Iranian tanker whose seizure has been requested by the U.S. is actually heading to Lebanon's territorial waters and not to a Lebanese port, clarifying earlier remarks.

"This tanker is not heading actually to Iskenderun (in Turkey), this tanker is heading to Lebanon," Mevlut Cavusoglu said earlier on Friday during a visit to Oslo.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh stressed on Friday that BDL is closely following the issue of Jammal Trust Bank sanctioned by the US treasury and reassured its customers that their deposits were “secure.”