The Lebanese Army said Thursday that a military patrol headed to the southern border town of Blida after receiving information about gunfire in the vicinity of the municipality building.

“It turned out that an (Israeli) enemy unit had made an incursion into the town and opened fire at the municipality building, targeting one of its employees which resulted in his martyrdom,” the army added.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday condemned the Israeli incursion and the killing in “cold blood” of a municipal worker in the southern border town of Blida.

He also deplored the blowing up of a Shiite religious hall in Adaisseh.

Israeli airstrikes on Thursday targeted the hills of al-Jarmaq and al-Mahmoudiyeh near the Jezzine district town of al-Aishiyeh.

The Israeli army said the strikes targeted "Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure, including a launcher and tunnel shaft in the area of Mahmoudiyeh in southern Lebanon."

Hezbollah on Thursday condemned the "cold blooded" killing of a Blida municipality worker in an Israeli ground incursion, commending President Joseph Aoun for instructing the army to confront such raids.

Charging that “the Zionist aggression against our country is happening with U.S. partnership and collusion,” Hezbollah said Washington grants the green light to “every Israeli escalation and every aggression with the aim of pressuring Lebanon to implement a malicious agenda and schemes that do not serve its national interest and do not preserve its sovereignty and strength elements.”

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Thursday ordered the armed forces to oppose any Israeli incursions in the country's south following an Israeli raid that killed a municipal worker.

Aoun ordered the army to "confront any Israeli incursion into liberated southern territory, in defense of Lebanese territory and the safety of citizens", during a meeting with the army chief, according to a statement from the presidency.

Israeli troops killed a Lebanese municipal worker on Thursday during a raid on a border village in the south, state media reported.

The incident in the town of Blida sparked condemnation by Lebanese officials and a protest by residents.

Cabinet on Wednesday tasked a specialized ministerial committee with submitting, within a week, a report about the electoral law amendments that have been suggested by the foreign and interior ministries.

The aforementioned compromise convinced the Lebanese Forces’ ministers not to walk out of the session, Al-Jadeed TV said.

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus has proposed in her meetings with Lebanese leaders to involve civilians in indirect negotiations between Lebanon and Israel through the ceasefire monitoring committee, media reports said.

President Joseph Aoun welcomed the idea, a report published Wednesday in Nidaa al-Watan newspaper claimed. The civilians would be high-level officials such as ministers or diplomatic representatives of Lebanon and Israel.

The U.S.-led ceasefire monitoring committee, known as the Mechanism, met Wednesday in Naqoura to “review the Lebanese Armed Forces’ (LAF) progress on maintaining the cessation of hostilities arrangements, and the advancing of disarmament efforts in Lebanon,” the U.S. embassy said.

“The session, hosted by UNIFIL, included Lt. Gen. Joseph Clearfield, chairman of the Mechanism, Counselor Morgan Ortagus, and senior representatives from each of the delegations. All members reaffirmed their shared commitment to stability in Lebanon and agreed to a more structured meeting occurrence, announcing that the 13th through 16th iterations of the Pentalateral will occur prior to the end of the year,” the embassy said in a statement.

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus and Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Rashad did not relay “direct threats” to Lebanese officials but rather “advices and veiled diplomatic warnings,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Rashad, who played a key role in reaching the Gaza truce, explained to President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam the efforts that have been exerted regarding Gaza, expressing Egyptian readiness to play an essential role in the Lebanese crisis, informed sources told the daily.