An Israeli drone strike has killed an Amal Movement fighter and wounded two others, according to a statement released by Amal, which is allied with Hezbollah.

Ali Daoud became the first Amal fighter to be killed in action since the fighting began on October 8, while Hezbollah has lost nearly 70 fighters during the past five weeks.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has warned Hezbollah that launching a war would result in widespread destruction in Lebanon similar to that in Gaza, where Israel is battling Hamas militants.

"If it (Hezbollah) makes this kind of mistake here, the ones who will pay the price will be first and foremost Lebanese citizens," Gallant told soldiers on Israel's northern border in remarks relayed by his office.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah noted Saturday that his group has escalated its attacks against Israel over the past week through introducing new weapons to the battle, noting that military “pressure” on Israeli will continue from Lebanon’s front as long as it is pressing on with its war on Gaza.

Hezbollah on Saturday said it attacked four Israeli military barracks and posts on and near Lebanon's border, shortly after Israel carried out a drone strike on a pickup truck 45 kilometers deep into Lebanon.

An Israeli drone struck Saturday a pickup truck deep in Lebanese territory, official media in Lebanon said, after weeks of skirmishes mainly limited to border areas since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said "an enemy drone targeted a pickup truck" on a farmland in the Zahrani area on Lebanon's coast, some 45 kilometers from the Israeli border, without reporting any casualties. Media reports said the pickup was targeted in a banana grove and that the driver escaped unharmed.

The Israeli army said it was carrying out airstrikes on “a series of Hezbollah targets” on Friday evening in response to Hezbollah attacks earlier in the day.

“Three Israeli army soldiers were seriously wounded when an anti-tank missile was fired at a military post in the town of Manara,” Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on the X platform.

The United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon has said that the spillover of the Hamas-Israel war has already caused “significant damage” in Lebanon where Hezbollah and allied groups have been clashing with Israeli forces on the border for more than a month.

Imran Riza said in a statement Friday that there have been “concerning signs of escalating tensions” along the border.

A half-formed peace plan proposed by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati may be Gaza’s best chance, according to the American Foreign Policy Magazine.

Mikati proposed a three-step peace plan, but his plan needs Western backers, Foreign Policy said.

There is an inclination to prevent the looming vacuum in the army chief post through a technical extension in Cabinet of General Joseph Aoun’s tenure, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Friday.

Aoun’s term expires on January 10 and the session will be held prior to that, the daily added.

Former General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim said he played a role in a deal that allowed hundreds of foreign nationals and dozens of seriously injured Palestinians to leave Gaza after more than three weeks under siege.

Ibrahim told ad-Diyar newspaper, in remarks published Friday, that the lawyers of dual passport holders in Gaza had contacted him to help these dual nationals leave Gaza as Hamas asked in return for allowing wounded civilians to get hospitalized in Egypt.