An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Mount Lebanon’s Chouf province killed at least 15 people, including eight women and four children, and wounded at least 12 others, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.

The strike came without warning. Lebanese state media said the building was sheltering displaced families.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein said he believes "there is a shot" of securing a ceasefire deal in Lebanon soon, telling U.S. news portal Axios: "I am hopeful we can get it."

A drone fired from Lebanon smashed into a nursery school near the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Tuesday morning, but no children were injured as they were inside a bomb shelter at the time of the attack.

That's according to an Associated Press reporter who visited the scene. The impact scattered debris across the playground.

An Israeli strike hit a villa in the mountains east of Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least five people, in a rare attack outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds.

The Israeli strike hit a house between Dhour al-Abadiyeh and Baalshmay in the Aley district.

Druze leader and former Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat does not conceal his pessimism as to the ongoing Israeli war on Lebanon, saying he does not see a glimpse of hope regarding an imminent end to the "open war between Iran and Israel in Lebanon."

Lebanon's stance on the ongoing war is "clear: a ceasefire and the implementation of Resolution 1701," Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said.

At least ten strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs Tuesday morning, less than an hour after the Israeli army called for residents of several neighborhoods in the Hezbollah bastion to evacuate.

AFPTV footage showed plumes of grey smoke rising from the area. Witnesses told AFP gunfire could be heard in the area ahead of the strikes -- warning shots by residents for people to leave following the evacuation call.

Lebanese state-run media said Israel struck a house in the northern Akkar region on Monday, one of the farthest attacks from the border in its war against Hezbollah, killing and wounding at least 28 Syrian citizens, displaced Lebanese and town residents.

Lebanese Red Cross chief Georges Kettaneh meanwhile told LBCI television that at least seven people were killed and 14 others wounded in the strike, as TV networks said the strike had been preceded by the bombing of a car near the building.

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on the southern town of Saksakiyeh killed at least seven people on Monday, with state media reporting women and children among the dead.

The ministry said that an "Israeli enemy strike on Saksakiyeh... killed seven people and injured seven others in an initial toll", with Lebanon's official National News Agency saying the attack "targeted a house" and killed "mostly women and children", adding that rescuers were searching for missing people under the rubble.

"The world is waiting" for Donald Trump’s incoming U.S. government to "immediately" end Israel’s wars with Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref told a summit of Arab and Islamic countries on Monday.

"The American government is the main supporter of the actions of the Zionist regime (Israel), and the world is waiting for the promise of the new government of this country to immediately stop the war against the innocent people of Gaza and Lebanon," Aref told the joint Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit.