A Hizbullah official said Friday that his group’s anticipated retaliation against Israel will take place deep inside Israel.

“The stance of Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has pushed the Zionist enemy to live in a state of extreme terror, panic and caution, to an extent that it has started hiding behind dummies in its military vehicles,” ex-MP Mohammed Yaghi, who is Nasrallah’s executive aide, said.

The head of the Association of Banks in Lebanon, Salim Sfeir, on Friday reassured that “no other Lebanese banks” will be targeted by U.S. sanctions, after Washington sanctioned Lebanon’s Jammal Trust Bank over alleged Hizbullah transactions.

Speaking after a meeting with President Michel Aoun in Baabda, Sfeir said the Association is “studying the U.S. decision regarding Jammal Trust Bank,” while stressing that “the interests and rights of all depositors will be preserved.”

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Friday held phone talks with U.N. chief Antonio Guterres over the latest Israeli drone attack in Beirut’s southern suburbs, his office said.

“He stressed to him that Israel bears the full responsibility for its unjustified attack on a densely inhabited area in Beirut’s suburbs, which is the first of its kind since 2006, in addition to its repeated violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701,” Hariri’s office said in a statement.

Interior Minister Raya el-Hasan discussed, with a delegation from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees led by Mireille Girard, issues related to Syrian refugees in Lebanon particularly birth registration for the displaced, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

A Lebanese bank targeted by the U.S. Treasury Department for "knowingly facilitating banking activities" for Hizbullah denied the charges Friday, saying it abides by international laws.

The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Jammal Trust Bank on Thursday and added it to its list of global terrorist organizations.

Turkey's foreign minister said Friday that an Iranian tanker whose seizure has been requested by the U.S. is actually heading to Lebanon's territorial waters and not to a Lebanese port, clarifying earlier remarks.

"This tanker is not heading actually to Iskenderun (in Turkey), this tanker is heading to Lebanon," Mevlut Cavusoglu said earlier on Friday during a visit to Oslo.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh stressed on Friday that BDL is closely following the issue of Jammal Trust Bank sanctioned by the US treasury and reassured its customers that their deposits were “secure.”

The UN Security Council on Thursday voted to renew its long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon for a year, warning of a "new conflict" with neighboring Israel.

The U.S. administration imposed sanctions Thursday on Lebanon’s Jammal Trust Bank over transactions allegedly linked to Hizbullah.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said the bank “knowingly facilitates banking activities for Hizbullah.”

A new report emerged Thursday about the twin drone attack that targeted the Beirut southern suburb of Mouawad on Sunday, which Hizbullah has blamed on Israel.

“The first drone was supposed to open a hole in the wall of the building to allow the entry of the second drone into the building to blow it up from the inside,” al-Jadeed TV reported.