U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has acknowledged the need to compel Israel to stop a lot of its combat operations in Lebanon and he is preparing to talk to Israel about a mechanism to rein in its combat operations and daily violations of Lebanese sovereignty, the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper quoted two Lebanese sources as saying, one of them close to one of the three presidents (Joseph Aoun, Nabih Berri and Nawaf Salam).

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri hoped there will positive developments after the Lebanese response to was delivered Monday to U.S. envoy Tom Barack.

Progress has been made by the Lebanese army on disarming Hezbollah in south Lebanon "but much remains to be done", a U.S. State Department spokesperson told Saudi channel al-Arabiya.

The State Department source said the U.S. "needs the Lebanese state to do more to completely eliminate all weapons and infrastructure of Hezbollah and non-state actors across the country".

A patrol from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Thursday attempted to enter the southern town of Aytit, but was met with resistance from a group of local youths, the state-run National News Agency reported.

According to NNA, the patrol fired tear gas in the direction of the protesters before retreating from the area.

An Israeli drone strike targeted Thursday a motorcycle in the southern town of al-Mansouri, killing one person and wounding two others.

The Israeli army had also targeted overnight a cafe and an aluminum workshop in Yohmor al-Shaqif. It said Hezbollah was using civilian buildings and putting civilian lives in danger, claiming that the cafe and the workshop were "a Hezbollah command center."

A senior Israeli official on Thursday lauded “the Lebanese Army’s efforts in collecting Hezbollah’s arms in south Lebanon,” noting that “the Lebanese government is serious about dismantling Hezbollah’s military capabilities in the South.”

Mireille Rebeiz, Dickinson College

After a 12-day war launched by Israel and joined briefly by the United States, Iran has emerged weakened and vulnerable. And that has massive implications for another country in the region: Lebanon.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack told the Lebanese officials he met with during his latest visit to Beirut that there is a “three-month window” to reach a solution regarding Hezbollah’s arms, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammad Raad carried a message to Speaker Nabih Berri on the eve of the Lebanese response to U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s paper, sources from the U.S. Republican Party said.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun met Wednesday with Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides at the Presidential Palace in the capital Nicosia.

Aoun said after the meeting that all what he wants for Lebanon, the region and the world is "just peace through dialogue" while Christodoulides voiced Cyprus' support for Lebanon's stability, unity, and territorial sovereignty.