Israel will not end its war against Hamas until militants free hostages, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday in Washington after Israel cancelled another U.S.-bound delegation over a U.N. Security Council ceasefire call.

"We have no moral right to stop the war while there are still hostages held in Gaza. The lack of a decisive victory in Gaza may bring us closer to a war in the north," Gallant said ahead of meetings with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Hezbollah carried out Monday several attacks on Israeli positions while Israel bombed several border towns in south Lebanon.

Hezbollah said it targeted a group of soldiers on the al-Tayhat hill With missiles and artillery shells, a "newly created" command center in Liman, the Bayyad Blida post, and the Zebdine post in the occupied Shebaa Farms.

Hezbollah has announced the death of two of its fighters in Israeli attacks, accusing Israel of trying to expand its strikes.

The accusation came after security sources reported two Israeli air raids deep inside Lebanon, in the country's east.

Four people were wounded by Israeli air strikes near Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek overnight, one of which hit a two-story building, an AFP correspondent said on Sunday.

Israel and Hamas ally Hezbollah have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted in October.

Lebanese authorities have detained a suspected French drug dealer a few days after releasing him on bail, judicial officials said.

The officials said members of Lebanon's General Security Directorate detained Abdel Karim Touil at the request of the country's prosecutor general and he was being held at the Justice Palace in Beirut. Officials refused to give any details on whether Touil has a lawyer in Lebanon.

Shortly before sunset on a recent evening, Mervat Reslan and a group of other women made french fries in vats of boiling oil to serve with that night's iftar — the meal that breaks the daily fasts Muslims observe during the holy month of Ramadan.

They belong to roughly 60 families who have been sheltering at an abandoned hotel in the southern Lebanon town of Marwanieh to escape the shelling and airstrikes that have made it too dangerous to stay in their homes in the country's border region with Israel. Although they've become a family of sorts to one another, many long to return home.

Lebanon will lodge a complaint against Israel at the U.N. Security Council accusing it of disrupting navigation systems and civil aviation around Beirut airport, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

The head of Hezbollah’s Coordination and Liaison Committee, Wafiq Safa, returned Thursday to Beirut from the UAE after he held talks there related to the repatriation of a number of Lebanese detainees.

The Israeli army and Hezbollah exchanged fire Friday, as tensions seemed to de-escalate along the Lebanon-Israel border.

Hezbollah fired artillery shells at Israeli troops near the Zar'it barracks and targeted with a suicide drone a tank in the Metula post. The group had carried out Thursday nine attacks on northern Israel.

The French Foreign Ministry has announced its commitment to preventing escalation between Hezbollah and Israel, stating that it is “actively engaged on all fronts to achieve this goal.”