Israeli opposition chief Yair Lapid has said that he is opposed to military service exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews, saying Israel’s military “is stretched to the limit.”

“If there is a flare-up in the north (on Lebanon’s front), there are not enough soldiers to manage it,” Lapid warned.

French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian and the five-nation group on Lebanon, which comprises the U.S., France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt, support a presidential initiative by the National Moderation Bloc.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said in a televised interview that Le Drian has informed him, in a phone call Sunday, that he and the quintet support the initiative.

Israeli air strikes near Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek killed one person on Monday, a security source said, in the second raid in the region since cross-border hostilities began after the Gaza war.

Since October 8, the day after the war broke out in the Gaza Strip, Hamas ally Hezbollah and its arch-foe Israel have exchanged near-daily fire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left open the prospect of a military operation in Lebanon to facilitate the return of Israelis displaced from northern Israel.

"They've left their homes because of fear that Hezbollah would perpetrate the massacres in the northern border with Lebanon that Hamas perpetrated in the border with Gaza,” Netanyahu said in an interview with U.S. news website Politico.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday said Lebanese officials are “continuing contacts with all the relevant local and international parties in order to spare Lebanon war.”

Saluting “the souls of the martyrs,” Mikati said that “God willing, things will not further escalate.”

The Israeli army has carried out a logistics supply drill as part of its preparations for a potential ground offensive in Lebanon.

Against the backdrop of the country's ongoing political instability and the conflict in southern Lebanon, a remarkable educational event unfolded, bringing a ray of hope to educational suppliers and institutions.

The past week saw the conclusion of the second edition of the SchoolTec Exhibition and Conference, specializing in the educational and technological supplies sector. This annual event in Lebanon underscores the critical role of the education sector as a foundational pillar of the nation's cultural identity and its regional educational prominence.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri would head a meeting that would follow the National Moderation bloc's initiative aimed at breaking Lebanon's presidential vote deadlock.

The initiative, launched in February, calls for consultations in Parliament followed by open electoral sessions.

Hezbollah attacked Monday a military base in the Golan Heights with suicide drones.

The group said it had successfully attacked "an air and missile defense base" in a barracks in the Golan Heights with four suicide drones.

Israeli warplanes on Saturday bombed a house in the southern town of Majdal Zoun, totally destroying it, prompting emergency crews and paramedics to head to the area, the National News Agency said.