A group of men and children gathered at a vantage point overlooking their village in southern Lebanon, watching from a distance as Israeli drones descended, carrying boxes laden with explosives to be dropped on houses.

It has become a daily ritual for residents of Mansouri, who fled the village weeks ago and now are watching its destruction from the neighboring village of Hanniyeh.

The next round of negotiations between Israel and Lebanon in Rome has been delayed until October, a U.S. official said.

The Lebanese Army has arrested a relative of ousted Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, as well as the son of famous Lebanese drug lord Nouh Zaiter, a security source told AFP.

The source, requesting anonymity, said that the military "arrested three people, including Suleiman Hilal al-Assad, the son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's cousin" while they were caught using drugs in the eastern Bekaa region.

Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir visited the 36th Division area on Friday together with the chief of the northern command after the Israeli army blew up the Hezbollah tunnels of the strategic Ali Taher ridge.

“After the Hamas attack on October 7, it was Hezbollah that initiated and launched the war against Israel on the northern front. Hezbollah is fighting and destroying Lebanon on behalf of the Iranian regime,” Zamir said.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has taken action against entities and individuals that support Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah.

In a statement, the Treasury charged that the two groups “fuel Iran’s destabilizing influence in the Middle East, endanger U.S. and partner forces, and facilitate extensive sanctions evasion schemes.”

Israel said Friday that it was prepared for more strikes on Hezbollah after demolishing tunnels built by the Iran-backed group in southern Lebanon with a massive explosion.

After around three months of fighting against Hezbollah, the Israeli army destroyed 14 tunnel routes in the strategic Ali Taher ridge with a total length of more than 5.4 km using about 1,100 tons of explosives.

According to Israel’s Maariv newspaper, the Israeli army says that about 50 Hezbollah fighters were holed up in the compound, which was built over more than 20 years.

Joelle Fares, who recently moved to Marjayoun, was sitting there Thursday when "everything shook". Israel said it was demolishing key tunnels built by Hezbollah beneath the strategic Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon. The explosions triggered a 4.1 magnitude tremor and rocks from the detonation completely blocked the Khardali road.

Elsewhere on the border, Israeli forces also carried out violent detonations in al-Mansouri, al-Khiam and Baraashit. Strikes targeted overnight into Friday al-Qantara, al-Mansouri, Harees, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, and Wadi Zebqine, and artillery shelled Wadi al-Hujair.

Speaker Nabih Berri has stated that "the situation is dangerous" in south Lebanon and "solutions remain far off," noting that "the framework agreement has fallen."

"If the Israelis want to occupy, they can do so," Berri added, in remarks to al-Joumhouria newspaper.

Lebanon’s mission to the United Nations has accused Israel of committing nearly 2,000 "land, air and sea violations" of Lebanon’s sovereignty during the month of July, according to a letter to the U.N.

The letter, published Thursday on the U.N. website, did not give details of the alleged violations. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.