A major war between Israel and Hezbollah is ruled out until the moment and the U.S. and France have played a key role in weakening this possibility, European diplomatic sources said.

Senior Lebanese officials have contacted the Qatari leadership, including during caretaker PM Najib Mikati’s meetings in Davos, asking it to send Qatari envoy Jassem bin Fahad Al-Thani to Lebanon as soon as possible in order to revive the presidential election file, political sources told al-Liwaa newspaper.

European and Western diplomats have advised Hezbollah, through Lebanese officials, to lower the intensity of its cross-border attacks on Israel during this period in order not to give Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu an excuse to expand the war on the South, a media report said.

A delegation from the Libyan Ministry of Justice is expected to travel to Beirut in the coming days to revive a memorandum of understanding from 2014 regarding the disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric imam Moussa Sadr in 1978.

The delegation will meet with the Lebanese justice ministry and the committee overseeing the case of the son of Libya's former leader Moammar Gadhafi, a Lebanese judicial official said.

A judge at Lebanon's highest court suspended the arrest warrants against two former cabinet ministers in the 2020 Beirut port blast case, officials said.

The explosion was one of the world's largest non-nuclear blasts ever recorded.

The Israeli army bombed several southern border towns overnight through Wednesday, while Hezbollah targeted groups of soldier in al-Raheb post.

Israeli artillery and warplanes struck the Kfarshouba heights, Kfarkila, Markaba, al-Taybeh, Wadi Slouqi, Aita al-Shaab and the outskirts of al-Naqoura, Yarine, Dhaira, al-Bustan, Merwahine, al-Jebbayn, Aita al-Shaab, Ramia and Houla.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has met with Marada leader and Hezbollah presidential candidate Suleiman Franjieh in Clemenceau.

"The Progressive Socialist Party is working on crystallizing a domestic solution with all parties," PSP MP Bilal Abdallah said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Tuesday stressed that a ceasefire in Gaza would be the cornerstone for the beginning of all solutions in the region.

The Israeli army on Tuesday said it carried out a combined strike with warplanes and artillery on dozens of Hezbollah military buildings and infrastructure in Wadi Slouqi in south Lebanon, a strategic valley that lies a few kilometers away from the frontier.

The Israeli army’s northern region commander, Major General Ori Gordin, has inspected a military exercise in which troops trained on “waging an attack on Lebanon as part of raising the level of readiness,” the Israeli army said on Tuesday.