As calm returned to Gaza and to Lebanon's southern border Friday, former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat remained worried.

In an interview published Friday in al-Joumhouria newspaper, Jumblat said he is cautious about the truce and feared that the war was still at its beginning.

Cabinet will not convene next week nor in the foreseeable future to discuss the army chief file, governmental sources said.

UNIFIL Head Lt. Gen. Aroldo Lázaro says he is “concerned by the ongoing intensification of the exchanges of fire along the Blue Line that has already claimed too many lives, caused significant damage, and jeopardized livelihoods.”

Calm returned to Lebanon's southern border Friday as a temporary truce took effect in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, according to Lebanese state media and the Israeli military.

Since the Gaza war erupted on October 7, Lebanon's southern border with Israel has witnessed deadly exchanges of fire, primarily involving the Israeli army and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, as well as Palestinian militant groups.

A number of Lebanese politicians and spiritual leaders on Thursday reacted to the killing of the son of Hezbollah’s top MP Mohammed Raad in an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon.

French special presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian is returning to Lebanon "soon".

"The country is on the brink of war," Le Drian said in an interview with France Info, stressing the presidential and governmental void.

The head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, has said that his son Abbas has been slain while seeking to “lift injustice and resist tyranny and Zionist savagery and the savagery of all the enemies of humanity.”

“We are firm on this path, we will carry on … and we want the pride and dignity of our people and nation,” Raad said as he received the coffin of his slain son.

For the second consecutive day, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has warned that ongoing attacks by Hezbollah against Israeli targets could lead to all-out war in Lebanon.

“The attacks by Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy, could lead to war in Lebanon,” Cohen says in a briefing to the media.

Hezbollah fired 48 rockets at an Israeli military base on Thursday and carried out at least 10 other attacks on Israeli positions near the frontier, a day after an Israeli strike killed five Hezbollah fighters, including the son of the head of the group’s parliamentary bloc.

Air raid sirens sounded across northern Israel as Hezbollah fired 48 Katyusha rockets at the Ein Zeitim Israeli military base near the town of Safed in northern Israel, about 10 kilometers from the border. The Israeli military said it was striking the sources of the launches.

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met Thursday with Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah at an undisclosed location in Lebanon.

In a statement, Hezbollah said Amir-Abdollahian and Nasrallah "reviewed the latest developments in Palestine, Lebanon and the region, and... the efforts made to end the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip".