New U.S. Ambassador Lisa A. Johnson has arrived in Lebanon, the U.S. embassy in Beirut said.

Johnson is a former U.S. Ambassador to Namibia and more recently held leadership positions in the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement in Washington.

U.S. presidential envoy Amos Hochstein on Thursday held talks in Beirut over the explosive situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border and the possibility of reaching a diplomatic solution.

Two paramedics were injured Thursday in an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah-affiliated Health Organization in Hanine.

Israeli warplanes had struck the Islamic Health Society in the Lebanese southern border town of Hanine, killing the two Hezbollah paramedics and injuring several others.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil said the understanding with Hezbollah did not include the liberation of Palestine, although he expressed his support for the Palestinian cause.

In a televised interview, Bassil said the Palestinians are the ones who should decide how to confront and are the ones responsible for the liberation of their land.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has pledged 15 million euros ($16 million) to bolster the Lebanese armed forces amid growing concern about tensions on the border with Israel as the Gaza war rages.

Baerbock, on a visit to Beirut, said the military aid was aimed at helping the Lebanese army better secure the southern border with Israel.

Israel's army chief has said that his troops could destroy any village inside Lebanon, ramping up rhetoric against the Hezbollah militant group based across the border.

The Israeli military has been exchanging fire with Iran-backed Hezbollah -- a key ally of the Palestinian militant group Hamas -- almost every day since the war in Gaza broke out on October 7.

An Israeli strike has killed a civilian in a border town in southern Lebanon, a local official told AFP, as regional tensions soar amid the Gaza war.

Kfarkila mayor Hasan Sheyyet said a resident was killed Wednesday "during an Israeli artillery strike while he was in his garden", adding he was "a civilian with no party affiliation".

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab said he met with Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday was to put him in the picture of the meeting that he has held in Rome with U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein.

The five-nation group for Lebanon -- which comprises the U.S., France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt -- will hold a meeting in the weekend to discuss the situation in Lebanon, media reports said.

The Lebanese judiciary has "seized all the assets of Gabriel, Jihad and Carole Murr," accusing them of "embezzlement," Lebanese network MTV, which was founded by the Murr family, reported on Wednesday.

“The ruling seizes all the properties, real estate, companies and shares of Gabriel, Jihad and Carole Murr, which proves their embezzlement of funds, after they had accused (MTV chairman) Michel Murr of this for years,” MTV said.