An Israeli drone struck Saturday a pickup truck deep in Lebanese territory, official media in Lebanon said, after weeks of skirmishes mainly limited to border areas since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said "an enemy drone targeted a pickup truck" on a farmland in the Zahrani area on Lebanon's coast, some 45 kilometers from the Israeli border, without reporting any casualties. Media reports said the pickup was targeted in a banana grove and that the driver escaped unharmed.

The Israeli army said it was carrying out airstrikes on “a series of Hezbollah targets” on Friday evening in response to Hezbollah attacks earlier in the day.

“Three Israeli army soldiers were seriously wounded when an anti-tank missile was fired at a military post in the town of Manara,” Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on the X platform.

“Consensus” has been reached on the release of a number of Palestinian women and child prisoners in return for 100 women and a child held captive by Hamas, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported on Friday.

Complicating Israel's military push inside the Gaza Strip is the fate of around 240 hostages abducted on October 7.

Former General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim said he played a role in a deal that allowed hundreds of foreign nationals and dozens of seriously injured Palestinians to leave Gaza after more than three weeks under siege.

Ibrahim told ad-Diyar newspaper, in remarks published Friday, that the lawyers of dual passport holders in Gaza had contacted him to help these dual nationals leave Gaza as Hamas asked in return for allowing wounded civilians to get hospitalized in Egypt.

The head of Hezbollah’s religious committee, Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek, has called for the election of a new Lebanese president.

“It’s about time the Lebanese met around a dialogue table to exit the lethal vacuum through electing a president and restoring regularity in state institutions,” Yazbek said.

Israeli artillery shelling targeted Friday the outskirts of the southern border town of Ramia, as reconnaissance drones overflew south Lebanon at a low altitude, violating Lebanese air space.

Hezbollah later attacked many Israeli posts including al-Assi, al-Manara, al-Bayyad, al-Mutella, al-Jerdah, Berket Risha, and the Dhaira post. The Israeli army shelled in response Mays al-Jabal's outskirts and the town's hospital, Blida, Mhaibib, and Marwahin. It also shelled al-Labbouneh, and the outskirts of several Lebanese border towns.

Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh has noted that he has met with most Arab ambassadors in Lebanon and that none of them has informed him of any negative stance regarding his presidential nomination.

“To those who consider that my presidential chances have ended I tell them no, and to those saying that my presidential chances are 100% I also tell them no. My chances are rather 50/50 and Saudi Arabia has not placed any veto on my nomination,” Franjieh said in an interview on LBCI television.

The Israeli army on Friday bombed the outpatient and maternity building of Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital, causing deaths and injuries.

Israel has agreed pauses in its offensive in northern Gaza that will allow some civilians to flee heavy fighting, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any broader ceasefire as a "surrender" to Hamas.

Former General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim has confirmed a role in the negotiations with Hamas over a prisoner swap with Israel.

"Few hours separate us from the humanitarian truce in Gaza," Ibrahim said in a televised interview on Wednesday night.

The area around Dar al-Fatwa in Beirut witnessed a popular protest that forced the cancellation of a visit by U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea.

Protesters in Lebanon have accused Washington of supporting the killing of civilians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli army.