Hezbollah said Saturday that it fired volleys of Katyusha rockets at Israel’s Mount Neria military base in response to an overnight attack on the southern town of Froun, after the Israeli army said its warplanes attacked “over 15 rocket launchers” there.

“Fighter jets of the Air Force, under the direction of the Northern Command, attacked more than 15 launchers and military infrastructures of … Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in the last hour,” the Israeli army said.

The charges against detained former Central Bank chief Riad Salameh will be focused on the file of the $40 million commissions, a media report said on Friday.

Opening all files “will lead to a years-long or perhaps decades-long trial that does not end, given the complicated details, in addition to the obstacles that will be put in the way and the pressures that will be practiced on the judiciary due to political interference,” Annahar newspaper reported.

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Friday called for detained former Central Bank chief Riad Salameh to appear before her on Wednesday, holding State Prosecutor Judge Jammal al-Jarrah responsible should security forces fail to bring Salameh to the hearing session.

“I reiterate that the Optimum file has been open at the Public Prosecution Office of Mount Lebanon since the issuance of the Capital Markets Authority report around two years ago, and it is also based on the complaint stemming from the Alvarez & Marsal report,” Aoun said in an X post.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea insists on boycotting a presidential dialogue initiated by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, as Lebanon remains without a president since Michel Aoun's term ended in October 2022, almost two years ago.

"I am flexible," Geagea said in a radio interview on Thursday night. "But I cannot be flexible about Hezbollah's decision to start a war in south Lebanon," he added, as he dubbed Berri's dialogue anew "unconstitutional".

The four MPs who have recently become outside the Free Patriotic Movement intend to form “a consultative parliamentary gathering, that would become a pressure group, not a bloc nor a party, and its current main mission would be to produce a solution for the presidential crises,” the four MPs’ sources told al-Jadeed TV.

French presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian held a meeting overnight in Riyadh with Saudi Royal Court adviser Nizar al-Aloula, who is in charge of the Lebanese file, in the presence of Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari.

Hezbollah targeted Friday several Israeli posts while Israeli warplanes raided several times the southern border village of Aitaroun.

Hezbollah targeted the Ma'ayan Baruch post in northern Israel with a suicide drone, and later the Zebdine barracks and buildings and surveillance equipment in Metula and Menara. The group also targeted a post in the occupied Shebaa Farms.

The European arena will witness efforts aimed at contributing to a solution that would secure a ceasefire in Gaza and another between Hezbollah and Israel as soon as possible, in light of the looming U.S. presidential election, diplomatic sources in Paris said.

A U.S.-Saudi-French endeavor might focus in the coming period on convincing Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea to agree to Speaker Nabih Berri’s presidential initiative, which would secure “a significant parliamentary majority enjoying full respect for the National Pact,” sources said.

The ambassadors of the five-nation group for Lebanon will soon meet in Doha or Cairo to crystallize new ideas regarding Lebanon’s presidential file, informed sources said.