Hezbollah targeted Wednesday two command centers in north Israel in response to an Israeli strike that reportedly killed a Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon.
Hezbollah said it attacked an air control command center in Meron with dozens of artillery shells and Katyusha and heavy rockets, and another command center in the Biranit barracks with heavy Burkan missiles.

Kataeb leader MP Sami Gemayel has accused Hezbollah of obstructing the return of Syrian refugees to their country, ahead of a parliament session that discussed Wednesday the refugee crisis ana a 1 billion euros EU donation to Lebanon.
"We urge (Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan) Nasrallah to open the land borders for the Syrians to return," Gemayel said, accusing Hezbollah of controlling the Lebanese-Syrian borders.

Parliament convened Wednesday to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis and the latest controversial EU aid package, with lawmakers from the entire political spectrum ramping up anti-refugee sentiment and calling for more refugee returns and crackdowns.
“Lebanon’s fate hinges on this session,” Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri warned at the beginning of the session.

Hezbollah Chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met Wednesday with a delegation from Hamas headed by Khalil al Hayyeh along with Mohammad Nasr and Oussama Hamdan at an undisclosed location in Lebanon.
Nasrallah and the delegation discussed and evaluated the latest developments in Gaza and on the other "support fronts", a Hezbollah statement said.

Direct communication has taken place for the first time between caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the Syrian government, after ministers and security chiefs used to be in charge of such contacts in recent years.
In a Facebook post, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s adviser Luna al-Shebel revealed that Syrian Prime Minister Hussein Arnous has received several phone calls from Mikati.

Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly arrived Tuesday in Lebanon on a two-day visit to the crisis-hit country.
Joly had been in Cyprus and will also be travelling to Türkiye and Greece.

Lebanon resumed Tuesday "voluntary returns" of Syrians, with dozens of families set to pass through two land border crossings in the country's east, a year and a half after such returns were paused.
300 refugees are expected to leave from Arsal in the Bekaa Valley on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria to Homs and al-Qalamoun in Syria, media reports said.

Hezbollah said it targeted Tuesday the launchpad of an Israeli spy balloon that flew over Adamit in northern Israel, its control panel, and its operating crew.
The Israeli army said the spy balloon fell in Lebanon after Hezbollah shot it down.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Monday stressed that “the main and real objective of Lebanon's front is to pressure Israel to halt the war in Gaza.”
“The Lebanese front is imposing equations and its connection to the Gaza front is categorical,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech commemorating Hezbollah’s slain military commander Mustafa Badreddine.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday noted that “the continuation of the campaigns against the government in the Syrian refugee file is an approach that is clearly aimed at distorting the truth for populist goals.”
Some are seeking to “paralyze the work of the government and preoccupy it with futile bickering and debates,” Mikati lamented, in remarks at the Grand Serail.
