One person was killed Tuesday in an airstrike on the Tyre district town of Zalloutieh.

An Israeli drone also targeted al-Taybeh, damaging a power transformer in the town.

Israeli army leaders are privately pushing for a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza, describing it as the “best way” to recover over 100 captives and to “reach a deal with Hezbollah” that would prevent the expansion of the war, according to six current and former security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to the New York Times (NYT).

The top generals reportedly fear being dragged into a “forever war” by a political echelon that has repeatedly sabotaged attempts at reaching a ceasefire deal. According to the officials who spoke with the NYT, the “army is short of spare parts, munitions, motivation, and even troops.”

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has said that he is “reassured” that a solution will be reached in the “coming days” for the Israel-Hezbollah conflict that has been raging for the past nine months.

“I am reassured that we will reach a solution in the coming days,” Mikati said at a Beirut waterfront ceremony for launching the 2024 summer tourism season.

In response to the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Israeli military, the Lufthansa Group is temporarily suspending nighttime flights to and from Beirut, German news agency dpa reported.

The airline group, which also includes carriers Austrian Airlines, Swiss and Brussels Airlines, is suspending night flights to and from Beirut until July 31, it told dpa.

Uber driver Hussein Khalil was battling traffic in Beirut when he found himself in the Gaza Strip -- according to his online map, anyway -- as location jamming blamed on Israel disrupts life in Lebanon.

French officials have ruled out an Israeli war on Lebanon prior to the July 24 speech that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver at the U.S. Congress, a media report said.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein will meet Wednesday in Paris with Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French President's Special Envoy to Lebanon, Annahar newspaper reported on Monday.

The visit is aimed at "putting the French side in the picture of the contacts that Hochstein held in Tel Aviv and Beirut in order to prevent an expansion of the Gaza war to Lebanon," the daily said.

Arab League Assistant Secretary-General Hossam Zaki, who had said during a visit to Beirut that the Arab League no longer views Hezbollah as a terrorist group, said Monday that the policy shift took place in May 2023.

During a Jeddah summit in May last year, a resolution describing Hezbollah as a terrorist group was amended, Zaki told local al-Jadeed TV station.

The Maronite church’s official spokesman, Walid Ghayyad, has noted that “communication between Bkerki and Hezbollah is continuous,” following the latest uproar over recent remarks by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

“Had the patriarch considered Hezbollah terrorist, he would have ceased communication with it because he does not talk to terrorists,” Ghayyad told al-Jadeed television.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has said that “we are all threatened today because of Israel.”

“We are all asking the same question: whether there will be a war or not,” Bassil added during a tour of the Akkar district, stressing that the FPM is “against any policy that brings war.”