Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab and MPs Ibrahim Kanaan, Alain Aoun and Simon Abi Ramia met Thursday in Diman with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

Bou Saab and Aoun have been recently expelled from the Free Patriotic Movement while Abi Ramia and Kanaan have resigned from it.

French special envoy to Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian will meet with Saudi Royal Court adviser Nizar al-Aloula within hours, Lebanese television station MTV said Thursday.

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari will attend the meeting in Riyadh, the TV channel added.

Senior officials from the U.S. and Israel held a low-profile virtual meeting on Tuesday to discuss how to ease tensions with Lebanon and prevent an all out war between Israel and Hezbollah, four Israeli and U.S. officials told U.S. news portal Axios.

“The meeting, which hasn't been announced by the White House or the Israeli government, was initiated by the Biden administration to take the pulse on the Israeli side and coordinate their policies about the situation in Lebanon,” officials said.

One person was killed Thursday and another one was wounded in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Kafra, nearly 11 months since hostilities broke out between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah later announced the death of one of its fighters "on the road to Jerusalem."

The health ministry said Israeli strikes killed a woman and wounded five other people in the country's south on Wednesday, nearly 11 months since hostilities broke out between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah has exchanged near daily cross-border fire with Israeli forces since Palestinian militants Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, triggering war in the Gaza Strip.

Former Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the confrontation with Hezbollah.

“Another day when the residents of the north feel first hand the complete failure that this government has brought upon us,” Gantz said in a post on X, referring to dozens of rockets fired by Hezbollah at northern Israel earlier in the day.

State Prosecutor Judge Jamal al-Hajjar on Wednesday referred the file of detained former Central Bank governor Riad Salameh to Financial Prosecutor Judge Ali Ibrahim, who charged Salameh and referred him in custody to Beirut First Examining Magistrate Bilal Halawi.

U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein will not return to Lebanon before a Gaza ceasefire is reached, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper said.

The daily said Wednesday it has learned from sources that Hochstein told those he met in Lebanon during his last visit in June that he will not return before a Gaza agreement is reached.

Two people were wounded overnight in an Israeli strike on the southern border town of al-Khiam, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.

Israeli warplanes also raided overnight into Wednesday the outskirts of Zebqine, Aita al-Shaab and Yater in south Lebanon.

Once lauded for reviving Lebanon's economy, former central bank chief Riad Salameh -- wanted abroad and reviled at home after years of financial meltdown -- was arrested on Tuesday by Lebanese authorities.

The 74-year-old French-Lebanese national is widely viewed as a key culprit in the country's dramatic economic crash, which the World Bank has called one of the worst in recent history.