President Joe Biden's administration hopes that a truce in Gaza will lead to a "full pause" in fighting along the Israel-Lebanon border, a senior U.S. official said late Tuesday.

"We also hope that this (agreed four-day truce between Israel and Hamas) will lead to a full pause in some of the hostilities in the north, on the Lebanese border," the U.S. official said on condition of anonymity.

The killing of two journalists reporting for the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV Tuesday spurred a widespread outcry in Lebanon.

Correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Maamari were killed in Tayr Harfa by an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon.

An Israeli strike killed Tuesday four Palestinian members of the Hamas militant group in the village of Chaatiyeh near the Mediterranean coast.

The four Palestinians who were in an SUV car on a road between Chaatiyeh and al-Qlayleh near Tyre, were bombed by a drone.

Hezbollah’s Media Relations Department has condemned Israel’s airstrikes Tuesday on south Lebanon that killed two al-Mayadeen journalists and two civilians.

“This crime, the previous assassination of the journalist Issam Abdallah, the shelling of the convoy of journalists in Yaroun, and the Israeli forces’ killing of dozens of journalists in Gaza and the destruction of their offices highlight the importance of the role of media outlets in exposing the enemy’s terrorist practices and its horrible crimes against civilians,” Hezbollah said in a statement.

The United States will keep working to prevent an expansion of the Gaza conflict into Lebanon and the region.

In a letter he sent to caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, U.S. President Joe Biden said that his country will continue to work closely with Lebanon and with partners in the Middle East to maintain peace and prevent the expansion of the conflict.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday warned that Israel appears to be trying to “drag Lebanon into war,” shortly after Israeli airstrikes killed a number of Lebanese journalists and civilians.

“The shelling of a church, the house of a Lebanese MP and unarmed civilians and the direct targeting and killing of journalists are war crimes,” Bassil said in a post on the X social platform, formerly Twitter.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Tuesday strongly condemned the Israeli drone strike that killed al-Mayadeen journalists Farah Omar and Rabih al-Maamari and a civilian guide.

"This attack proves once more that Israeli crimes know no limit and that (Israel's) aim is to silence the media who expose its crimes and its attacks," Mikati added.

Two civilians and two journalists were Killed Tuesday in south Lebanon by Israeli bombardment.

Al-Mayadeen reporter and videographer Farah Omar, 25 years old, and Rabih al-Maamari, a father of two, have been killed as Israel targeted a group of journalists between Tayr Harfa and al-Jebbayn.

Senior Biden adviser Amos Hochstein arrived in Israel on Monday for talks with senior Israeli officials on preventing a war between Israel and Lebanon, two U.S. and Israeli officials told U.S. news portal Axios.

Hochstein arrived in Israel after another day of escalating skirmishes between Hezbollah and the Israeli army on the border, with heavy bombardments by the Lebanon-based group and airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force.

Hezbollah targeted Monday the Israeli Biranit post with four Volcano missiles (Burkan) and Israel retaliated by shelling several border towns including al-Labbouneh, al-Naqoura, Ain al-Zarqaa, Yaroun, Rmeish, Aita al-Shaab, Mays al-Jabal, Houla and Tayr Harfa.

later on Monday, Hezbollah targeted other Israeli posts, including the Zebdine barracks in the occupied Shebaa Farms, Ramim, the Bar'am kibbutz, Hadb al-Bustan, Malkia and Hadb Yaroun.