Hezbollah said Thursday that five of its fighters, including the son of a senior lawmaker, had been killed, amid skirmishes at the Israel-Lebanon border since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Abbas Raad, son of the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc Mohammed Raad, was "martyred on the road to Jerusalem", the group said in a statement -- the phrase it has been using to announce the death of its members due to Israeli fire since the war started on October 7.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has met in Lebanon with Khalil al-Hayyeh, who is Hamas’ deputy head in Gaza and its Arab and Islamic relations officer.

A statement issued by Hezbollah said the two men discussed the latest events since October 7 and evaluated the stances, developments and possible scenarios on all fronts, especially in the Gaza Strip.

Border skirmishes continued Wednesday between Israel and Hezbollah, as a source from the Lebanese group said that Hezbollah will abide by a truce between Israel and Hamas that will begin on Thursday.

In the morning, Israeli warplanes bombed the outskirts of the southern Lebanese border towns of Naqoura, Majdal Zoun, Shihin, Yater, Siddiqin and Recheknanay.

The Delegation of the European Union and the Embassies of the EU Member States to Lebanon have called for “restraint” in the current hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah while calling on Lebanon to elect a president and end its lengthy presidential vacuum.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka and the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix have briefed the U.N. Security Council on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, based on the latest report of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The killing of two journalists reporting for the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV Tuesday spurred a widespread outcry in Lebanon.

Correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Maamari were killed in Tayr Harfa by an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah’s Media Relations Department has condemned Israel’s airstrikes Tuesday on south Lebanon that killed two al-Mayadeen journalists and two civilians.

“This crime, the previous assassination of the journalist Issam Abdallah, the shelling of the convoy of journalists in Yaroun, and the Israeli forces’ killing of dozens of journalists in Gaza and the destruction of their offices highlight the importance of the role of media outlets in exposing the enemy’s terrorist practices and its horrible crimes against civilians,” Hezbollah said in a statement.

The United States will keep working to prevent an expansion of the Gaza conflict into Lebanon and the region.

In a letter he sent to caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, U.S. President Joe Biden said that his country will continue to work closely with Lebanon and with partners in the Middle East to maintain peace and prevent the expansion of the conflict.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday warned that Israel appears to be trying to “drag Lebanon into war,” shortly after Israeli airstrikes killed a number of Lebanese journalists and civilians.

“The shelling of a church, the house of a Lebanese MP and unarmed civilians and the direct targeting and killing of journalists are war crimes,” Bassil said in a post on the X social platform, formerly Twitter.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Tuesday strongly condemned the Israeli drone strike that killed al-Mayadeen journalists Farah Omar and Rabih al-Maamari and a civilian guide.

"This attack proves once more that Israeli crimes know no limit and that (Israel's) aim is to silence the media who expose its crimes and its attacks," Mikati added.