Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa will visit Syria on Wednesday to discuss recent tensions along the border between the two countries, a Lebanese official said.

"The defense minister will head a security delegation to Damascus to meet with his counterpart, Marhaf Abu Qasra," the official told AFP on Monday on condition of anonymity.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned on Monday during a visit to Jerusalem that Israeli strikes on Syria and Lebanon threatened to worsen the situation.

"Military actions must be proportionate, and Israeli strikes into Syria and Lebanon risk further escalation," Kallas said at a joint news conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil announced Monday on the X platform that the FPM has submitted “a draft electoral law based on the Orthodox (Gathering) law with additions,” referring to a controversial 2013 proposal that calls for each sect to elect its own MPs under a proportional representation system based on a nationwide district.

President Joseph Aoun held a series of phone talks with the Americans over the past hours, following the most dangerous cross-border conflagaration with Israel since the last war, a media report said.

An Israeli drone targeted a car in a southern Lebanese town on Sunday, state media reported, a day after the most intense escalation since a November ceasefire.

France has condemned the rocket fire from Lebanese territory into Israel, but called on Israel to display "restraint" as it launched strikes in response.

Hezbollah denied firing rockets at Israel on Saturday, as Israel struck southern Lebanon in response to three rockets it said were launched from across the border.

Israel carried out a second wave of airstrikes in Lebanon on Saturday evening, including in the southern city of Tyre and the Bekaa region, in response to three rockets that were fired by unknown individuals from Lebanon at north Israel.

The Israeli strike on Tyre killed one person and wounded seven others, according to Lebanon's health ministry.

Israel launched at least 18 air strikes on at least 11 areas across south Lebanon on Saturday after intercepting cross-border rocket fire, with Lebanese state media reporting two people killed and eight wounded in the southern town of Touline.

Israel's Prime Minister's office said it instructed the army to act forcefully against dozens of targets in Lebanon, adding: “Israel will not allow any harm to its citizens and sovereignty." Israel's army said carrier out strikes on dozens of alleged Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon.

President Joseph Aoun on Saturday condemned “the attempts to drag Lebanon anew into the cycle of violence,” after Israel said it intercepted three rockets fired from south Lebanon at north Israel.