The ambassadors of the five-nation group for Lebanon will meet today, Tuesday at the Pine Residence in Beirut, al-Jadeed TV reported.

Former president and Free Patriotic Movement founder Michel Aoun has tacitly criticized Hezbollah for deciding to activate the southern front against Israel in support of the embattled Hamas in Gaza.

“We do not have a defense treaty with Gaza and the side that can link fronts is the Arab League, but a part of the Lebanese people made a choice and the government is incapable of taking a stance,” Aoun said in an interview on OTV.

A delegation from the U.S. Congress’ foreign affairs committee will arrive today, Tuesday in Beirut for talks with Speaker Nabih Berri, caretaker PM Najib Mikati, Army chief Joseph Aoun and possibly caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, a media report said.

Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat sees that Lebanon has entered an "open war" with Israel.

In a post published Monday on the X platform, Jumblat warned that the war with Israel might last for months or even more.

U.S. State Department Arabic-language spokesperson Samuel Werberg has stressed that Washington does not support an expansion of the war between Lebanon and Israel.

A building collapsed in a southern suburb of Beirut late Monday, killing four people and injuring three others as rescuers searched for more people under the rubble, a paramedic official said.

The building in the suburb of Choueifat crumbled after days of heavy rain. Local officials said the four-story building was not considered safe and the municipality had ordered it evacuated two years ago out of concerns its foundation was weak. Despite the order, the owner of the building rented apartments to Syrian families.

Israeli warplanes targeted Tuesday the outskirts of Houla, Mays al-Jabal and Blida, a day after 14 people were wounded in strikes in Ghaziyeh, about 30 kilometers from the border.

Later on Tuesday, Hezbollah targeted a group of soldiers in the Ramim barracks, while Israel bombed al-Hamames Hill, al-Wazzani, Dhayra, Shihin, Marwahin, the Haramoun Hill, and Aita al-Shaab.

Lebanon's foreign ministry has urged the international community to condemn the "ongoing" Israeli attacks and to pressure Israel to stop dragging Lebanon into an all-out war, after 14 people were wounded Monday in two Israeli air strikes on Ghaziyeh.

In a statement Monday following the strikes, the foreign ministry, called on the international community to pressure Israel "to stop its provocative attempts... to lure Lebanon into a war that (Beirut) is seeking to prevent".

Violent Israeli airstrikes on Monday targeted the town of Ghaziyeh on Sidon's outskirts for the first time since the beginning of the Israel-Hezbollah border clashes.

Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said the strikes targeted "Hezbollah arms depots near Sidon in response to the explosion of a hostile aircraft whose debris was found near the Tiberias area (in northern Israel) this afternoon."

Ex-PM and al-Mustaqbal Movement leader Saad Hariri will return to Lebanon in the spring of 2025 to prepare for the 2026 parliamentary elections, Mustaqbal sources said.