U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that peace between ‌Israel and Lebanon is "achievable" and that "the problem is not Israel or Lebanon" but Hezbollah.

Rubio told reporters on Tuesday at the White House that he thinks "a peace deal between Lebanon and Israel ​is imminently achievable, and should be".

Syrian authorities announced on Tuesday they had arrested a Hezbollah-affiliated cell plotting to assassinate government officials, while the Lebanese group denied the "false accusations".

The Syrian interior ministry said that it had conducted a "series of simultaneous security operations" in the Damascus countryside, Aleppo, Homs, Tartus and Latakia provinces.

Israel's military on Wednesday issued a new evacuation warning for a dozen villages in southern and eastern Lebanon ahead of expected strikes, despite a truce with Lebanon intended to halt the fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah.

"For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move away from the villages and towns by at least 1,000 meters into open areas," the military's Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee posted on X, listing 12 villages.

Germany's foreign minister Tuesday offered qualified support for Israel's military invasion of Lebanon during a visit of his Israeli counterpart to Berlin, while also criticizing humanitarian conditions in Gaza and "de facto annexation" in the West Bank.

The Health Ministry in Beirut said Tuesday that 8,311 people were also wounded during the same period.

If the Iran ceasefire collapses, Israel is eyeing the possibility of escalating strikes on Hezbollah across Lebanon, an Israeli source told CNN on Tuesday.

Washington is still pushing for diplomacy between Israel and Lebanon, but the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon appears to be on the verge of collapse. U.S. President Donald Trump extended the truce to the end of next week, but Israel and Hezbollah have continued to exchange fire on a daily basis.

President Joseph Aoun affirmed Tuesday that his actions are in the interest of "all Lebanese, not just a specific group," and that the path of negotiations is "the only remaining option after all other solutions, including war, have been exhausted."

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil met Tuesday in Ain el-Tineh with Speaker Nabih Berri.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Tuesday responded to Hezbollah's repeated announcements that it is not concerned with any direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel and subsequently by their outcome.

Hezbollah on Monday claimed a series of attacks on Israeli military targets in south Lebanon that it said were in response to "the Israeli enemy's violation of the ceasefire."

The state-run National News Agency (NNA) meanwhile reported Israeli air strikes on more than 20 south Lebanon locations, some of them towns where the Israeli military earlier Monday told residents to evacuate.