Israel’s army has drawn up plans to invade southern Lebanon, British newspaper The Times said Monday.

"What happened in the south (of Israel during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack) is nothing compared to what they could do here," a senior Israeli officer told The Times.

The Israel National Cyber Directorate accused on Monday Iran and Hezbollah of a cyber attack last month against Ziv Medical Center in the northern Israeli city of Safed.

The hack was partially successful, the INCD said.

Army Commander General Joseph Aoun hosted Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh over dinner on Thursday evening, media reports said.

An Israeli strike hit a building opposite a Hezbollah fighter's funeral procession in southern Lebanon on Monday without causing casualties, official media reported.

The frontier between Lebanon and Israel has seen regular exchanges of fire, mainly between the Israeli army and Hamas ally Hezbollah, since the conflict in the Gaza Strip began on October 7.

Lebanon has rescued more than 50 people, mostly Syrians, from a sinking migrant boat off the country's north coast, the army said .

The military obtained "information about a vessel that was sinking off the coast of Tripoli while it was being used for illegal people smuggling", the army said in a statement.

France's Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on Monday urged restraint in meetings with senior officials in Beirut, seeking to de-escalate tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border amid near-daily exchanges of fire.

Since October 8, the day after the Israel-Hamas conflict started, the frontier between Lebanon and Israel has seen escalating cross-border fire, mainly between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, which says it is acting in support of Palestinian armed group Hamas.

A new round of cross-border clashes erupted Sunday between the Israeli army and Hezbollah.

In separate statements, Hezbollah said it attacked the Birkat Risha and Hanita Israeli posts inflicting “certain casualties.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Sunday that France could play a key role in preventing a war in Lebanon as cross-border skirmishes with Hezbollah continue to raise tensions.

"France could play a positive and significant role to prevent a war in Lebanon," Cohen said at a joint media briefing with visiting French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.

An Israeli drone on Saturday bombed a deserted room in a residential neighborhood in the Nabatieh district town of Houmine al-Tahta, which lies around 40 kilometers away from the nearest border point, in a significant escalation of hostilities, the National News Agency said.

The strike did not cause any casualties according to the town's mayor.

Hezbollah said Saturday that it mounted two morning attacks on the Birkat Risha Israeli post near the border, inflicting deaths and injuries.

Media reports said four Israeli soldiers were wounded in the attacks, one of them critically.