Progressive Socialist Party former leader Walid Jumblat has described Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s speech on the military developments in Gaza and south Lebanon as “very realistic.”

“He was very realistic in describing the plight of the Palestinian people and the Israeli occupation of the past 75 years, in addition to the situation in Gaza and the bombardment of civilians,” Jumblat said in an interview with al-Jadeed television.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Saturday met in Jordan with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

During the meeting, Mikati stressed “the priority of working for a ceasefire in Gaza to halt the continuous Israeli aggression there, and also working on stopping the Israeli aggression against south Lebanon,” Lebanon’s National News Agency said.

Hezbollah on Saturday attacked the al-Jirdah, Hadb al-Bustan, Jal al-Alam and Malkia Israeli military posts on Lebanon’s border.

Israel retaliated with an airstrike on the al-Labbouneh area in Naqoura and artillery shelling on the Lebanese border areas of Naqoura, Yarin, Tayr Harfa, Dhayra, Shihin and Aitaroun.

The U.S. Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder has said that he does not think Hezbollah would escalate the fighting with Israel, even after Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed threats to both Israel and the United States.

"A broader regional conflict has been deterred," Ryder told the BBC.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has said that Hezbollah "should not try to take advantage of the ongoing conflict," shortly after Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a much-hyped speech in which he addressed threats to both Israel and the United States over the ongoing war in Gaza and the skirmishes in south Lebanon.

"This has the potential of becoming a bloodier war between Israel and Lebanon than 2006," Jean-Pierre warned.

Julia Norman, an associate professor of politics and international relations at University College London, has said that both U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah -- two actors who “are going to be very influential on how the conflict moves from this point” -- have both offered signals Friday against a wider war.

“That’s not to say it won’t, but the messaging today from both seemed to be ... trying to operate within a sense of restraint and to not have this ripple out even further,” she said.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea rejected anew the choice of war on the eve of a speech by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on the Israel-Hamas war.

"War does not lead to any actual result," Geagea told LBCI. "We need a real solution to the Palestinian cause." He added that the Axis of Resistance has done nothing that served the cause. "It's not about speeches, but rather about giving the Palestinians their rights back," he said.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday warned Israel against attacking Lebanon, saying "all options" are on the table and that the chance of open conflict is "realistic."

"All options are open on our Lebanese front," Nasrallah said, in a highly-anticipated televised speech commemorating the Hezbollah fighters who have been killed in clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border since October 8.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel Friday to press the Israeli government on its ongoing offensive in Gaza amid growing international condemnation and a steadily mounting civilian death toll.

The top U.S. diplomat, who traveled twice to Israel last month in the wake of the deadly Hamas attack, is meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the war cabinet in Tel Aviv as the U.S. government continues to attempt balancing support for Israel’s defense with an increasingly public call for them to protect civilians.

Israel shelled Friday the outskirts of Qaouzah, Ramya, Yaroun, Ras al-Naqoura, Marwahin, and Aita al-Shaab, as it continued its unprecedented artillery shelling on southern Lebanese towns along the border.

The Israeli army said it targeted a missile launchpad in the Shebaa Farms, while Hezbollah fired an anti-tank missile at a gathering of Israeli troops near the Mattat post facing Rmeish, inflicting "certain casualties."