A French court on Thursday postponed a much-awaited decision on freeing pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed 40 years ago for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats.

The Paris appeals court, which had been scheduled to deliver its verdict on Thursday, said it needed more time and would now revisit the case on June 19.

Israel said Friday it struck crossings on the Lebanon-Syria border used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons, with a Syria war monitor reporting an unspecified number of people wounded in the attack.

The Israeli military said its air forces "struck crossing points in the area of the Lebanon-Syria border" used by Hezbollah "in attempts to smuggle weapons into Lebanese territory".

A visiting EU official said Friday that disbursing half a billion euros in funding to Lebanon was conditional on a banking sector restructure and reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

In May last year, the European Union announced one billion euros ($1 billion) in aid for Lebanon to help stem irregular migration to the bloc, with the assistance designed to strengthen basic services including education and health amid a severe economic crisis.

The Progressive Socialist Party on Thursday said it salutes “the souls of the martyrs who fell throughout the long history of the confrontation against the Israeli enemy,” calling on all Lebanese to demonstrate a “national moment” on Sunday, during the funeral of slain Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine.

EU Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Šuica will travel to Lebanon Thursday on her first mission to the Middle East.

The Lebanese Forces announced Thursday that it has filed a judicial complaint against Soldiers of God -- a small, fundamentalist Christian group that is accused of being financed by the banker Antoun Sehnaoui.

Calling the group a “secret association”, the LF accused the group and its members of “involvement in a series of serious crimes that threaten security and civil peace.”

Beirut’s airport witnessed controversy on Thursday during the arrival of pro-Hezbollah passengers who were stranded in Iran for several days after Lebanon banned the landing of two Iranian flights following reported Israeli threats and U.S. warnings.

The Lebanese Army said Wednesday its units were "completing their deployment in all southern border towns" where Israeli troops had withdrawn.

In a statement, it also said the Israeli army was "persisting in shirking its commitments and in violating Lebanese sovereignty through ongoing attacks on the security of Lebanon and its citizens."

Hezbollah is preparing for a massive turnout for the funeral on Sunday of its slain leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, an opportunity for a show of strength by the group after a bruising war with Israel.

Nasrallah's death nearly five months ago in a huge Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs left Hezbollah supporters in disbelief and sent shockwaves across Lebanon and the region.

President Joseph Aoun stressed Wednesday to U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz the need to “end Israel’s occupation of the remaining points” in south Lebanon and to “continue implementing the Nov. 27, 2024 agreement to guarantee boosting stability in the South and enforcing Resolution 1701.”