Druze leader Walid Jumblat has noted that Hezbollah’s response to the assassination of the commander Fouad Shukur was “very calculated.”

“Hezbollah’s penetration of the Israeli defenses is an important matter,” Jumblat added, in an interview on Qatar’s al-Arabi TV.

Four people were killed in an Israeli strike that hit a car in Syria near the border with Lebanon, Syrian media and an official with a Lebanese group said.

The Lebanese official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly, said the strike killed one member of the Lebanese Hezbollah and three members of the allied Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil has again criticized Hezbollah’s so-called “Gaza support front” in south Lebanon, noting that “the FPM had the courage from the first day after October 7 to demand that Lebanon not be linked to other arenas and to the interests of other countries.”

“Since that date, Lebanon has been fearing strikes, and unfortunately this matter has affected the arrival of expats during the month of August,” Bassil added, in a speech at the annual dinner of the FPM’s Koura department.

A Lebanese security source said Wednesday that an Israeli air strike hit a lorry loaded with Hezbollah missiles overnight, days after a major flare-up between the regional foes.

Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military did not immediately comment.

The Security Council is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a resolution that would extend the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for a year and demand a halt to the escalating exchanges between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.

Israel and Hezbollah pulled back after an exchange of heavy fire across the U.N.-drawn boundary between Israel and Lebanon known as the Blue Line over the weekend, but their decades-old conflict is far from over and regional tensions linked to the war in Gaza are still high.

Kandice Ardiel, the Deputy Spokesperson of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), has said that the situation in south Lebanon has become less tense following Sunday’s flare-up between Israel and Hezbollah.

In an interview with al-Hurra television, Ardiel added that she is reassured that the war will end soon.

Stefanie McCollum, Canada's Ambassador to Lebanon, has welcomed the Lebanese government’s latest announced plan for stability in the south.

"It would see the LAF (Lebanese Army) assuring the security in the south," McCollum said, in an interview on LBCI television.

Intensive diplomatic contacts “accompanied and followed Sunday’s confrontations” between Israel and Hezbollah, a media report said.

“Washington simultaneously exerted pressures on the Lebanese and Israeli sides to rein in escalation and avoid descending into the war mistake, stressing that the two sides need to engage in the diplomatic solution course,” al-Joumhouria newspaper quoted “credible sources” as saying.

Three civilians were injured Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike on the southern town of al-Majadel in the Tyre district, as relative calm returned following a heavy exchange of strikes between Israel and Hezbollah on Sunday.

A fourth civilian was moderately injured in a strike on Shihine, the Health Ministry said.

U.S. army chief Gen. CQ Brown and Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi made a joint visit Monday to the Israeli military’s Northern Command headquarters, a day after a major flare-up between Hezbollah and Israel.

“The commanders held a situational assessment in the IAF Operational Command Center yesterday (Sunday). Today (Monday), the commanders visited the headquarters of the Northern Command, where they were presented with the ongoing combat against Hezbollah during the war and the operational plans for the future,” the Israeli army said.