Israeli warplanes on Sunday carried out a strike on the Abou al-Laban neighborhood in the southern border town of Aita al-Shaab, the National News Agency said.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein has said that the US is working in a quiet manner to figure out how to end the cross-border conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel, which has seen the most intense escalation of fighting between the two in nearly two decades.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday vowed that Israel will “pay in blood” for the killing of civilians in south Lebanon, as he responded to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s threats to strike deep in Lebanon.

“The enemy will pay in blood for the killing of our women and children in Nabatiyeh, Sawwaneh and elsewhere,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech marking Hezbollah’s ‘Martyr Leaders Day’.

Israel's foreign minister Israel Katz called on the world Friday to pressure on Hezbollah to withdraw from South Lebanon.

"The world must pressure Iran and Hezbollah to withdraw from South Lebanon and implement U.N. resolution 1701," Katz said at a Security Conference in Munich.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Friday reiterated that Lebanon “will remain committed to all U.N. resolutions,” stressing that Israel should “implement these resolutions, halt its aggression against the South and violations of Lebanese sovereignty, and withdraw from all occupied Lebanese territories.”

A poll published by right-wing Israeli newspaper Maariv has showed that 71% of Israelis believe that Israel should launch a large-scale military operation against Lebanon.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea accused Hezbollah of exposing Lebanon and the Lebanese to destruction and death by launching attacks on northern Israel in support of Gaza.

"How did Hezbollah help Palestinians in Gaza," Geagea asked in a meeting Friday with the Russian Ambassador to Beirut, adding that the situation in Gaza can't get any worse.

Israeli artillery shelled Friday the outskirts of al-Labbouneh, Rashaya al-Fokhar, al-Fardees and al-Hebbariyeh, while Hezbollah attacked several posts in northern Israel, including the Malkia post.

Israeli warplanes had targeted overnight five villages in southern Lebanon including al-Qantara, al-Taybeh, and Blida, killing five fighters from Hezbollah and the allied Amal movement.

Hezbollah said Thursday it had fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel, a day after Israeli strikes killed 15 people, including one of its commanders.

"Islamic resistance fighters fired dozens of Katyusha-type rockets at Kiryat Shmona," an Israeli town near the Lebanese border, Hezbollah said in a statement.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant noted Thursday that the Israeli military has stepped up its attacks against Hezbollah by “one level out of ten,” warning that “the Air Force planes flying currently in the skies of Lebanon have heavier bombs for more distant targets.”

Speaking during a war simulation carried out by the so-called emergency preparedness committee, Gallant said the conferees were gathered after “an intense day in the north,” in reference to a deadly rocket barrage on the Israeli army’s Northern Command headquarters in Safad and Israel’s subsequent deadly response in south Lebanon.