The Free Patriotic Movement says it has “positively received the advanced stance expressed by Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea (on Sunday), especially as to the resistance (Hezbollah) and its martyrs and the issues of dialogue, coexistence and Lebanon’s unity.”

This stance matches “the FPM’s openness-characterized stances,” the FPM’s media department said in a statement.

Three people were injured Tuesday in Israeli attacks on south Lebanon, the Health Ministry said.

Two people were injured in a strike on the border village of Markaba and a civilian was injured by Israeli gun fire in al-Khiam.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that his presidential initiative can “pave the way for presidential elections as soon as possible,” hoping the five-nation group’s expected efforts will lead to “positivities.”

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is not worried about his presidential dialogue initiative, sources close to Berri told Annahar.

"Berri is assured that 86 MPs will participate in his dialogue," the sources said in remarks published Monday, adding that he will not immediately call for it as he hopes that Lebanese Forces Party leader Samir Geagea will change his mind and accept to attend the presidential dialogue.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has said that Israel intends to maintain its attacks on Hezbollah until it manages to return the residents of northern Israel to their homes.

“The price we are paying will not go in vain and we will keep striking (Hezbollah) until we return the residents of the north,” Gallant said during a visit to the occupied Golan Heights.

Two people were killed Monday in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon, according to the health ministry, with a Lebanese security source saying the car belonged to a U.N.-contracted company.

"The Israeli enemy's strike targeting a car in Naqoura left two dead," the health ministry said, without specifying whether they were civilians.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has said that the FPM has always called for “consensus” and “dialogue” among the Lebanese over the presidential file.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that the presidential file is “a domestic constitutional juncture that has nothing to do with the situations related to the Israeli aggression, whether in Gaza or in the Lebanese south.”

“We were the first to call … for all political and parliamentary parties to seize the current moment that the region is going through in order to finalize the presidential juncture as soon as possible, under the constitution’s ceiling and through consultations among everyone, without dictations or vetoes on anyone,” Berri said in a speech marking the 46th anniversary of the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr and his two companions.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has continued his criticism of Hezbollah over the conflict in south Lebanon, stressing that “Lebanon alone cannot liberate Palestine.”

Two Palestinians were killed and three Israeli soldiers were wounded in two attempted car bombings and related clashes overnight in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli army said the two Palestinians were killed while preparing to carry out bombings in the West Bank, where an Israeli operation entered a fourth day.