UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti announced Wednesday that the U.N. force is closely monitoring the developments in Lebanon and the broad region.

In this context, Tenenti stressed in an interview with the National News Agency the importance of ensuring security and stability along the Blue Line, saying UNIFIL is keenly working with the parties on the ground to achieve this end.

Presidency Affairs Minister Salim Jreissati held talks Wednesday at his office in Beiteddine with French embassy charge d’affaires Salina Grenet-Catalano.

“He discussed with her the general situations in Lebanon, especially the security situation after the Israeli aggression in Beirut’s southern suburbs and the steps that the Lebanese state is taking to address its aftermath,” the National News Agency said.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday described the unity that followed the latest attacks as the first victory against Israel.

“The Lebanese consensus on condemning the Israeli aggression that targeted Lebanon several days ago resembled the first sign of victory at the level of national unity,” Berri told lawmakers during the weekly Ain el-Tineh meeting.

Hizbullah is ruling out a wider war with Israel but says it will carry out a surprise attack in retaliation for an alleged Israeli drone assault south of Beirut over the weekend.

Naim Qassem told Russia Today in an interview that aired late on Tuesday that Hizbullah will not be "intimidated by threats of war in order not to retaliate. There was an aggression and we said we will retaliate and this is what will happen."

Deputy Parliament Speaker Elie Ferzli on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of a new Lebanese-Israeli war, but said that a response to Israel’s drone attack on southern suburbs of Beirut was inevitable.

Progressive Socialist Party MP Bilal Abdullah on Tuesday said that all officials of the Chouf region refuse to have a landfill or incinerator in the Jiyyeh area.

Since the latest Israeli drone attack in Lebanon, Prime Minister Saad Hariri has not stopped contacts with the US administration and other international parties to curb any Israeli aggression threatening to throw the situation off balance in Lebanon and the region, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat reported on Wednesday.

A suspected Israeli drone attack on a Hizbullah site in Beirut’s southern suburbs targeted “crates believed to contain machinery to mix high-grade propellant for precision guided missiles,” Britain’s The Times newspaper reported on Tuesday, quoting unnamed Western intelligence sources.

Hizbullah said overnight that a drone that crashed in its southern Beirut suburbs stronghold at the weekend contained an explosive device weighing more than five kilograms.

Lebanon has "forcibly deported" nearly 2,500 Syrian refugees back to their war-torn homeland since May, Amnesty International said Tuesday, calling on authorities to end the expulsions.

Lebanon’s Higher Defense Council on Tuesday stressed “the right of the Lebanese to defend themselves with all means against any aggression,” in the wake of Israel’s latest drone attacks in the country.

“This is a right that is enshrined in the U.N. Charter,” the Council added in a statement, emphasizing that “national unity remains the best weapon in the face of the aggression.”