President Joseph Aoun on Thursday visited the Central Bank in Beirut’s Hamra area and met with its newly-appointed governor Karim Souaid and his four deputies.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Thursday inspected the northern Bekaa region and the border with Syria.

President Joseph Aoun on Thursday followed up on the security developments in south Lebanon after violent Israeli strikes targeted the Nabatieh region.

A woman and her daughter narrowly escaped unharmed Thursday after Israeli forces opened fire at their car on the Kfar Kila road in Lebanon’s southern border region, the state-run National News Agency said.

Around 20 violent Israeli airstrikes on Thursday targeted a mountainous area in the Nabatieh district without prior warning.

The Israeli army said the strikes targeted a "strategic" Hezbollah underground project that allegedly contained militants, weapons and wells. It added that the site was rendered inoperable due to the strikes.

An Israeli drone struck Wednesday a house in the southern town of Majdalzoun in the Tyre district, hours after Hamas said that one of its commanders was killed in an Israeli strike on Sidon.

One person was lightly injured in the strike, local media reports said, adding that the targeted house was already destroyed.

Ambassador Lisa Johnson held Wednesday a reception at her residence to honor the Lebanese delegation to the SelectUSA 2025 Investment Summit to be held in Maryland, May 11-14.

The SelectUSA Investment Summit is the largest annual event to promote Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the United States by bringing together international investors, U.S. state and local representatives and government officials to facilitate investment in the U.S. economy.

Saudi Arabia is inclined to lift the ban on the travel of its citizens to Lebanon on the first day of Eid al-Adha, which is expected to be marked on June 6, Al-Jadeed TV reported on Wednesday.

Two Emirati passenger planes landed Wednesday at the Rafik Hariri International Airport after the UAE lifted its travel ban on Lebanon.

The Israeli army said a drone strike Tuesday in the southern town of Kfar Rumman killed Adnan Mohammad Sadeq Harb, the “commander of the logistic support unit in the Badr formation” of Hezbollah, which “operates in the northern Litani area in Lebanon.”

“As part of his role, (Harb) advanced the restoration of the combat capabilities of … Hezbollah and assisted in attempts to restore terrorist infrastructure south of the Litani River,” the Israeli army added.