Former Progressive Socialisty Party leader Walid Jumblat has warned that Lebanon might be “dragged into a war that might be harsher than the 2006 war.”

The leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, held talks on Wednesday with senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures in a key meeting of three top anti-Israel militant groups amid the war raging in Gaza.

A brief statement following the meeting said that Hezbollah's leader agreed with Hamas' Saleh al-Arouri and Islamic Jihad's leader Ziad al-Nakhleh on the next steps that the three — along with other Iran-backed militants — should take at this "sensitive stage."

Eleven Hezbollah fighters have been killed in the past 24 hours, as Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire along the border.

An Israeli drone fired Wednesday two missiles at the outskirts of Kfarshouba as Hezbollah targeted the Branit barracks and another Israeli post facing Naqoura.

Saudi Arabia has evacuated the families of diplomatic staff because of ongoing clashes between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops.

The Saudi move comes amid rising tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border, where Hezbollah members have been exchanging fire with Israeli troops daily for two weeks.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has urged "all parties" to cease fire to prevent further harm.

On the U.N. 78th anniversary Tuesday, UNIFIL did not celebrate the way it did in the past years due to the current security situation.

Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Tuesday said that Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil is playing an “important role,” in reference to the FPM chief’s meetings with the country’s leaders.

Jumblatt said that he along with Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Hezbollah ally Speaker Nabih Berri, are in agreement that the war shouldn't further expand into the tiny Mediterranean country. Jumblatt said that he held calls with top Hezbollah security officials on the matter.

French President Emmanuel Macron who visited Israel on Tuesday said Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran itself and the Houtis in Yemen, among others, must not take the risk of opening a new front.

Macron said he warned “potential terrorist groups" to stay out of the fight, and “clearly warned Hezbollah with direct messages.”

On October 23, 1983, attacks on French and U.S. troops in Lebanon's capital Beirut left hundreds dead -- 40 years on, survivors are horrified at today's upsurge in violence.

Israel on Tuesday said a guided missile was fired from Lebanon at the northern Israeli region of the Galilee, as an Israeli drone bombed a car near Lebanon’s border, reportedly foiling an attack.

Forty years after one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East, some warn that Washington could be sliding toward a new conflict in the region.

On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide bomber hit an American military barracks at Beirut International Airport, killing 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines – still the deadliest attack on Marines since the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima. A near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.