Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said that U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein has carried “ideas” to Lebanon, not a complete “proposal.”

“In turn, we proposed other ideas,” Berri added, in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper published Friday.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein proposed during his visit to Beirut on Thursday a cessation of hosilities between Lebanon and Israel and an eight-kilometer pullback by Hezbollah from the border, which would allow for the return of displaced residents on both sides of the border, the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Friday.

Hezbollah condemned Friday American and British air strikes on rebel-held Yemen.

The attacks, in response to Houthi's attacks on Red Sea shipping, killed at least five people and wounded six.

The Israeli army bombed Friday several border towns in south Lebanon, as U.S.-led airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi rebels raised fears of a regional conflagration.

The Israeli artillery shelled Mays al-Jabal, Houla, Dhaira and Tayr Harfa.

New U.S. Ambassador Lisa A. Johnson has arrived in Lebanon, the U.S. embassy in Beirut said.

Johnson is a former U.S. Ambassador to Namibia and more recently held leadership positions in the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement in Washington.

U.S. presidential envoy Amos Hochstein on Thursday held talks in Beirut over the explosive situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border and the possibility of reaching a diplomatic solution.

Two paramedics were injured Thursday in an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah-affiliated Health Organization in Hanine.

Israeli warplanes had struck the Islamic Health Society in the Lebanese southern border town of Hanine, killing the two Hezbollah paramedics and injuring several others.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil said the understanding with Hezbollah did not include the liberation of Palestine, although he expressed his support for the Palestinian cause.

In a televised interview, Bassil said the Palestinians are the ones who should decide how to confront and are the ones responsible for the liberation of their land.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has pledged 15 million euros ($16 million) to bolster the Lebanese armed forces amid growing concern about tensions on the border with Israel as the Gaza war rages.

Baerbock, on a visit to Beirut, said the military aid was aimed at helping the Lebanese army better secure the southern border with Israel.

Israel's army chief has said that his troops could destroy any village inside Lebanon, ramping up rhetoric against the Hezbollah militant group based across the border.

The Israeli military has been exchanging fire with Iran-backed Hezbollah -- a key ally of the Palestinian militant group Hamas -- almost every day since the war in Gaza broke out on October 7.