The Lebanese file has been put on the front burner after the United States reactivated its role in the region in light of the raging Israel-Hamas war, a media report said on Wednesday.

Moreover, U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein’s latest visit to Beirut was not only aimed at keeping Lebanon away from what is happening in Gaza, but also reflected “a key side of the U.S. administration’s approach in terms of putting Lebanon’s file on the front burner,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported.

Hezbollah is not eager to ramp up its hostilities against Israel, the Russian foreign minister has said.

Moscow does not believe that Iran, Lebanon or Hezbollah want the Israel-Palestine war to escalate into a broader regional conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told Russia’s RT television.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed the need for a two-state solution as "Palestinians cannot remain without a state."

In a meeting Wednesday with United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka, Geagea said that the border skirmishes between Israel and Hezbollah in the south do not serve anyone, "especially Lebanon and its people."

Lebanese political parties are trying to come up with a solution before Army chief Gen. Joseph Aoun's planned retirement in January.

Aoun's retirement would add another gap to crisis-hit Lebanon's withering and paralyzed institutions.

UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Lieutenant General Aroldo Lázaro on Tuesday met with Speaker Nabih Berri and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Beirut, ahead of the Security Council’s consultations on Resolution 1701 (2006).

"I expressed my deep concern about the situation in the south, and the potential for wider and more intensive hostilities," Lázaro said in a statement.

Israel is deliberately using “disproportionate force” in Gaza and targeting “civilian infrastructure” in an effort to limit its own losses and showcase its “military force,” according to a confidential memo from the Dutch Embassy in Tel Aviv.

The memo, drafted by the Dutch defense attaché in the embassy and seen by Dutch media outlet NRC, analyzes Israel’s military strategy in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been launching retaliatory airstrikes for over a month straight and conducting a ground invasion, killing more than 11,000 people according to the health ministry in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that he has instructed the Israeli army to “prepare for all scenarios to deal with Hezbollah” on Israel’s northern front.

“Our goal first and foremost is total victory over Hamas and the return of the captives and then we will deal with the north,” Netanyahu said after a meeting with the chiefs of the northern Israeli settlements.

The United States in conjunction with the United Kingdom on Tuesday announced a third round of sanctions on Hamas since last month's attack on Israel, again targeting the group's Iranian backers.

The sanctions target "key Hamas officials and the mechanisms by which Iran provides support to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad," another militant group operating in the Gaza Strip, a statement from the U.S. Treasury Department said.

The caretaker cabinet failed to convene Tuesday, due to a lack of quorum and a ministerial meeting at the Grand Serail replaced the cancelled session.

The session was postpone to Monday.

The Israeli army intended to carry out strikes deep in the south and deep in Lebanon following the meeting of Israel’s war cabinet on Sunday, but U.S. pressures on the Israeli government prevented that, media reports said.

“Political sources in Tel Aviv revealed that the Israeli army commanders had told PM Benjamin Netanyahu that it was inevitable to deal a severe blow to Hezbollah in response to its new escalation over the past two days and that such a strike should be painful, specifically in Beirut’s (southern) suburbs, so that it could be deterrent,” Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported.