An Israeli drone strike killed one person and injured another on the beach of the southern port city of Tyre on Saturday, according to the state-run National News Agency.

The agency said the victims were fishermen.

The U.N. has voiced concern that conditions were so dire in Syria that some Lebanese residents who had fled there seeking refuge from the Israel-Hezbollah war were opting to return to Lebanon.

Four U.N. peacekeepers from Italy have been wounded by rockets in Lebanon fired by Hezbollah, Italian officials said.

An Israeli airstrike killed the director of a university hospital and six others at his home in northeastern Lebanon, state media said.

The strike targeted Dr. Ali Allam’s house near Dar Al-Amal Hospital, the largest health center in Baalbek-Hermel province, which has provided vital health services amid Israel's campaign of airstrikes, the Health Ministry said. State-run media reported that the strike came without warning.

An Israeli air strike in central Beirut killed at least 11 people early Saturday, bringing down a residential building and jolting residents across the city out of bed as Israel kept up its air campaign against Hezbollah.

Four Italian soldiers have been lightly hurt in an "attack" by two rockets on the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Italian authorities said Friday.

The World Health Organization says nearly half of the attacks on health care in Lebanon have been deadly since the Middle East conflict erupted in October last year, the highest such rate anywhere in the world.

The U.N. health agency says 65 out of 137, or 47%, of recorded “attacks on health care” in Lebanon over that time period have proven fatal to at least one person, and often many more.

Israeli troops fought fierce battles with Hezbollah fighters on Friday in different areas in south Lebanon, including a coastal town that is home to the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers.

A spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL told The Associated Press that they are monitoring “heavy clashes” in the coastal town of Naqoura and the village of Shamaa to the northeast.

Israel has told U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein that it rejects France's participation in the monitoring committee that will supervise any ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, Arab and Israeli media reports said on Friday.

Legendary Arab singer Fairouz, whose ballads have told of love, her native Lebanon and the Palestinian cause, turned 90 on Thursday as her conflict-weary country is wracked by the Israel-Hezbollah war.