Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Thursday that negotiations are ongoing over the border dispute with Lebanon and the release of Lebanese prisoners detained in Israel.

After meeting his French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot in Paris, Saar said that Turkey is playing a negative role in Syria and Lebanon, adding that Israel wants "the stability of Lebanon, the continuation of the ceasefire, and liberating Lebanon from Iranian occupation."

Two people were wounded Thursday in an Israeli drone strike on a car on the Bint Jbeil road in south Lebanon, the Health Ministry said.

President Joseph Aoun’s contacts with the Americans over the past two days “failed to obtain a decision decision from Washington to sway Israel to halt the strikes” on Lebanon, the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The Spanish Civil Guard has carried out an operation against a group of individuals accused of joining a Hezbollah logistics structure in Spain, Spanish media reports said.

The latest Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs “will not be the last,” a Lebanese diplomatic source told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has said that its old ally Hezbollah can no longer have a military role and has to abide by the Lebanese constitution and rules.

"We had an understanding but it no longer exists," Bassil said Tuesday, accusing Hezbollah of going to a war that was not in Lebanon's interest. "This has greatly weakened our relations, but it is still a Lebanese party and we have to talk to them just like we talk to all the other parties."

Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Morgan Ortagus will arrive in Beirut in the coming hours, al-Jadeed TV said Wednesday.

Ortagus had stressed the need to fully disarm Hezbollah and said Washington wants diplomatic negotiations and peace between Lebanon and Israel, but newly elected President Joseph Aoun assured that Hezbollah’s arms will not be removed by force and that normalization with Israel was not on the table.

The Lebanese government has received diplomatic demands for setting a timeframe for removing Hezbollah’s weapons, LBCI television reported on Wednesday.

Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. government has used its immigration enforcement powers to crack down on international students and scholars at several American universities who had participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations or criticized Israel over its military action in Gaza.

Trump and other officials have accused protesters and others of being "pro-Hamas," referring to the Palestinian militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Many protesters have said they were speaking out against Israel's actions in the war.

In the war-devastated southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun, residents marked the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr among their dead.

Relatives crowded the village's cemeteries to pray for the more than 100 residents, including fighters from Hezbollah, killed during the war between the militant group and Israel that ended with a fragile ceasefire in November.