Lebanese state media reported Israeli strikes Sunday about 10 kilometers from the southern border as mourners converged in Beirut for the massive funeral of the group's slain leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

"Hostile aircraft launched two raids targeting the area between Qleileh and Sammaaiyah in the Tyre district," the official National News Agency said.

Israel struck the Lebanon-Syria border on Saturday to allegedly stop Hezbollah from smuggling weapons, the Israeli military and a war monitor said, a day before a mass funeral for the Lebanese group's slain leader.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was killed by Israel nearly five months ago in a huge strike on south Beirut, at the start of an all-out war that ended with a ceasefire agreement in late November.

Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, will travel to Lebanon for the funeral of long-time Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday, Iranian media reported.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out in Beirut to farewell the Iran-backed group's leader.

The British Museum said Friday it had chosen French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh to redesign a third of the venue's gallery space -- including a section housing the disputed Parthenon Marbles.

The museum, one of London's biggest tourist draws, received more than 60 entries after launching a competition last year for a remodeling of its Western Range galleries.

U.S. Republican Representative Joe Wilson has criticized Lebanese politicians who are planning to attend the funeral of slain Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday.

"Any Lebanese politician who attends the funeral of the murderous terrorist Hasan Nasrallah is standing with the Iranian Regime," Wilson said on X.

A Lebanese-American man has been found guilty of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the "Satanic Verses" author.

Hadi Matar faces up to 25 years in prison and will be sentenced in April after being convicted of attempted murder and assault charges over the 2022 attack.

Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar said Friday that the country’s security chiefs have reviewed the measures that will be taken on Sunday during the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam held talks Friday at the Grand Serail with a delegation from the U.S. Congress led by Representative Darrell Issa, in the presence of U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa Johnson.

Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Ali Fayad said the funeral of slain Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday will witness “a million-person rally that is unprecedented in Lebanese political history.”

President Joseph Aoun on Friday presided over a security meeting at the Baabda Palace.