Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad has rejected that Électricité du Liban chairman Kamal Hayek be held responsible for the latest blackout in the country, after caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati referred the file to the judiciary.

"I was surprised with what happened … I wasn’t expecting this injustice represented in the measure taken by Mikati and he has no right to pin the blame on a single party,” Fayyad said in an interview with MTV.

An Israeli drone targeted Wednesday a car in the city of Sidon near the Ain el-Helweh camp, hours after another drone strike on a car in the southern town of Beit Leef killed a Hezbollah fighter.

In response to the Beit Leef strike, Hezbollah targeted the Hadb Yaroun post in northern Israel with a suicide drone and the Ramim barracks with Katyusha rockets.

MPs Alain Aoun and Simon Abi Ramia, who have been recently expelled from the Free Patriotic Movement, might soon form a new parliamentary bloc, ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The two lawmakers may be joined by MP Ibrahim Kanaan, who was recently referred to the FPM’s so-called council of elders over alleged violations, the daily added.

Hezbollah said it launched suicide drones Wednesday at an Israeli military base in Ami'ad, near Lake Tiberias, and salvos of rockets on "a logistic military base" in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in response to the latest airstrikes on the Bekaa.

An Israeli army spokesman accused Hezbollah of "firing indiscriminately at Israeli civilians" in the Golan's Katzrin, warning that Israel will act to "protect its citizens," as Israeli media reported that more than 50 rockets hit a number of private homes in the Golan Heights.

David Hale, the former U.S. under secretary of state for political affairs and ex-ambassador to Lebanon, has said that he is not optimistic about the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Hamas.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has said that Israel’s military is shifting its attention from Gaza to the border with Lebanon.

Touring northern Israel on Tuesday, Gallant said Israel has scaled back its activities in Gaza, where it has been fighting a war against Hamas for nearly a year, and turned its focus to Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

Lebanon's health ministry said early Wednesday that Israeli strikes in the country's east killed one person and wounded 30 others, hours after it said four people were killed in the south.

The strikes came more than 24 hours after Israel carried out similar raids deep inside east Lebanon and as tensions mounted in the wake of the Israeli killing of a top Hezbollah commander.

Israel’s military said that a barrage of 55 rockets from Lebanon has ignited fires in northern Israel.

The military said Tuesday that only some of the projectiles were intercepted by Israel’s air defense systems, while others fell in open areas. Firefighters were working to contain the blazes.

Hezbollah launched Tuesday several rocket salvos at a command center in north Israel, in response to an Israeli strike that targeted a car in Deir Qanoun in the Tyre district the previous day, killing a Hezbollah fighter.

Hezbollah said in a statement it targeted a command center in Ga'aton "in response to the assassination in Deir Qanoun."

Lebanon’s permanent mission to the U.N. has filed a complaint to the Security Council over the repeated breaking of the sound barrier over the Lebanese regions by Israeli warplanes, including over the capital Beirut.

The complaint comes at the instructions of caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.