Hezbollah on Tuesday said it “fully and firmly” stands by “the valiant Palestinian resistance and Gaza’s honorable people,” after Israel resumed its war on Gaza and killed more than 400 people in less than 12 hours.

Moreover, Hezbollah called on “what’s left of the free international community, the U.N., the Security Council and legal and humanitarian organizations” to urgently act to “stop this continued crime against humanity.”

Nearly 13,000 Syrians fled across the borders to Lebanon since sectarian massacres on the Syrian coast earlier this month, Lebanese authorities said on Tuesday.

A report from Lebanon's Disaster Risk Management Unit obtained by AFP said 12,798 Syrians had arrived and settled in 23 different villages and towns in Lebanon's northern Akkar region, adding that most were living in family homes or makeshift accommodation centers.

U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has said that his administration is not satisfied with “the Lebanese officials’ performance in dealing with Hezbollah,” stressing that Washington “rejects this approach of maneuvering and jockeying which has not achieved what’s needed,” Annahar newspaper quoted an unnamed Lebanese figure as saying in remarks published Tuesday.

Speaker Nabih Berri was “dismayed” by the latest clashes on the Lebanese-Syrian border, fearing that they “may turn into a sectarian war, whereas they are a conflict over smuggling routes in the first place,” a media report said.

The U.S., influential Western countries and most Arab nations have said that there will no funds for reconstructing the Israeli-destroyed areas in Lebanon amid the presence of “arms outside the state’s arms,” in reference to Hezbollah’s weapons, a media report said.

Armed forces belonging to Syria’s new administration made a five-kilometer incursion at 2am Tuesday into the Lebanese part of the border town of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali and continued their advance in the morning, the town’s Lebanese mayor Ali Nassereddine said.

A Lebanese professor is back in her home country after she was expelled from the United States for attending the funeral of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a trip to Beirut, her family told AFP Tuesday.

Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and professor at the Ivy League Brown University, was detained on Thursday at Logan International Airport in Boston and deported the following day, US media reported.

Cautious calm was on Tuesday engulfing the al-Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp and the neighboring northern town of Wadi al-Nahleh near Tripoli following overnight clashes that lasted until dawn, the National News Agency said.

Cabinet failed Monday to approve a mechanism for administrative appointments, deciding to continue discussions in Thursday’s session, which had been dedicated to naming a new central bank governor, a media report said.

“Cautious optimism, Madam President, is the flavor of the day” -- these were the words of the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, who briefed the United Nations Security Council on the implementation of resolution 1701. She used them to synopsize the recent government formation process in Lebanon, welcoming both the "promising ministerial agenda" adopted, while noting that Lebanon’s protracted leadership vacuum had left the country’s new administration with just over one year to tackle a series of daunting challenges.

Speaking alongside Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the Special Coordinator provided the Council with an overview of the security situation in the country. While noting that the cessation of hostilities continued to hold, she added that this did not mean that all military activity on Lebanese territory had ceased.