Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has said that, because of the ongoing fighting with Israel, Hezbollah will not hold rallies in much of southern Lebanon this week commemorating the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein.

Ashoura is one of the most important dates on the Shiite calendar, but this year's solemn holy day comes as Hezbollah and Israeli troops have been exchanging fire on an almost daily basis since war broke out in Gaza.

An Israeli air strike has killed a Hezbollah fighter and his sister in south Lebanon, the National News Agency (NNA) and the group said.

Later, Hezbollah said it fired rockets at northern Israel in response.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Paris, through its “allies and partners in the region,” will ensure that “no power, by itself or through its proxies, triggers a dreaded conflagration.”

Hezbollah targeted Monday soldiers in the Biranit barracks in northern Israel and surveillance equipment in the al-Raheb post, while Israeli warplanes raided the southern border town of Mays al-Jabal and broke the sound barrier over Tyre, Sidon and al-Zahrani.

Also on Monday, the Israeli army struck Marwahin and shelled the outskirts of Shebaa in south Lebanon.

Opposition lawmakers will meet Friday with Amal and Hezbollah MPs, as they resume an initiative they had started last week, aiming to facilitate the election of a president.

Local newspaper al-Joumhouria and Lebanese Forces MP George Okais said the meeting will take place Friday, after Shiite Muslims end the commemoration of Ashura.

Hezbollah said Sunday that it attacked Israel's Ayelet military base with explosive drones in response to attacks on Lebanese towns and the targeting of civilians in Arnoun and al-Khardali.

Hezbollah had launched rockets at Israel on Saturday after an Israeli air strike killed two civilians in the country's south.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has warned that "the situation in Lebanon cannot wait for a settlement for the situation in Gaza," stressing the need for the government to "take decisive and instant measures regarding the southern front in terms of implementing Resolution 1701."

Speaker Nabih Berri’s Development and Liberation bloc on Friday said it condemns “any insults, unjust accusations or disdain for the presidential posts and their powers and roles.”

“The unjust accusation campaigns against the parliament speaker and his role and jurisdiction are certainly deplorable and their objectives are exposed,” the bloc said after a meeting in Ain el-Tineh under Berri.

Israel’s military said Friday that one of its soldiers was killed in combat in northern Israel as the country’s army and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah continue to trade cross-border fire.

33-year-old Israeli reservist Master sergeant Valeri Chefonov was killed in northern Israel Thursday in an explosive drone attack from Lebanon.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was quoted by his visitors as dubbing Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea "ungrateful."

Ad-Diyar newspaper reported Friday that Berri told his visitors that he had refused a dialogue without the LF's attendance.