Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem noted Friday that Israeli attacks on Lebanon increase whenever a U.S. official visits the country or talks about it.

“What is America's stance on 5,000 Israeli violations against Lebanon?” Qassem asked, in a televised address.

Lebanon placed its army on high alert Thursday after President Joseph Aoun ordered troops to confront any Israeli incursion into the country’s south, following a deadly overnight Israeli army ground raid in the village of Blida near the border.

According to Lebanese media reports, the army began deploying reinforcements and setting up new positions in southern villages, including in Blida.

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Friday asked his visiting German counterpart Johann Wadephul to "help put pressure on Israel to stop its attacks."

"Only a diplomatic solution, not a military one, can ensure stability and guarantee calm in the south," Rajji was quoted by the National News Agency as saying.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam held talks Friday in Bkirki with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

Speaking after the meeting, Salam said “the parliamentary elections will be held on their constitutional time.”

One person was killed and another wounded in an Israeli drone strike Friday on a motorcycle in the southern town of Kounine.

The Israeli army identified the slain man as Ibrahim Mohammad Reslan, claiming that he served as a maintenance officer for Hezbollah and was “attempting to rebuild Hezbollah's terrorist infrastructure.”

UNIFIL has expressed "deep concerns" at an Israeli armed incursion that killed a municipal worker in the southern border town of Blida early on Thursday.

"Such Israeli action north of the Blue Line represents a blatant violation of the Security Council Resolution 1701 and Lebanon’s sovereignty," it said in a statement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz will hold a meeting with top security officials on Thursday evening to discuss “the latest developments on the border with Lebanon in addition to Hezbollah’s growing threats,” an Israeli media report said.

“Discussions in the meeting will not only focus on facing the threats coming from the north, but also on the growing Egyptian role in Lebanon,” Israel’s i24 NEWS reported.

The initial outcome of the meetings and talks of the past 48 hours indicates that Lebanon will face a wave of political pressures and increased Israeli attacks, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus’ visit to Lebanon “did not carry anything new as to expecting any change in the Israeli behavior,” sources in contact with the U.S. capital told the daily.

The Lebanese Army said Thursday that a military patrol headed to the southern border town of Blida after receiving information about gunfire in the vicinity of the municipality building.

“It turned out that an (Israeli) enemy unit had made an incursion into the town and opened fire at the municipality building, targeting one of its employees which resulted in his martyrdom,” the army added.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday condemned the Israeli incursion and the killing in “cold blood” of a municipal worker in the southern border town of Blida.

He also deplored the blowing up of a Shiite religious hall in Adaisseh.