Hezbollah is carrying out the “duty” of helping Hamas and the Palestinians “without harming Lebanon,” Hamas representative in Lebanon Ahmad Abdel Hadi said, in reference to Hezbollah’s daily operations against the Israeli army on Lebanon’s border.

Israel shelled Friday southern Lebanese border areas as it searched for a militant who infiltrated into Israel's northern town of Margaliot.

The man shot at Israeli soldiers and managed to return to Lebanon.

The military wing of Hamas said its members fired 30 rockets from south Lebanon into northern Israel Thursday, mainly targeting the towns of Nahariya and Shlomi.

Media reports said the rockets wounded three Israelis with one of the rockets slamming directly into a building in northern Israel.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib announced after meeting the Arab ambassadors in Beirut on Thursday he agreed with them on “the importance of reaching an immediate ceasefire and sending aid to Gaza.”

Israeli emergency cabinet minister Benny Gantz has said that the ongoing Israel-Hamas war is likely to take months, and could potentially include a northern front as well.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius arrived Thursday in Beirut on a surprise visit, amid a war that is raging between Israel and Hamas and growing violence on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.

The British Embassy in Beirut has announced updated Travel Advice for Lebanon.

The U.S. and Israel are discussing what to do in case Hezbollah joined the war.

U.S. President Joe Biden said he hasn't promised Israel that U.S. forces would fight alongside Israeli troops in response to any attack by Hezbollah against Israel.

Fromer Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has blamed the U.S. for sending weapons and equipment to Israel.

"Can’t you propose a ceasefire instead of bringing more troops and equipment?" Jumblat asked U.S. President Joe Biden who arrived Wednesday in Tel Aviv on a solidarity visit, on the X platform.

A fresh exchange of gunfire erupted Wednesday afternoon between Israel and Hezbollah on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

“Hezbollah is targeting Israeli surveillance infrastructure on the border with Lebanon,” Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV reported, adding that guided missiles were also fired at the Ras al-Naqoura and Jal al-Alam Israeli military posts.