Two men have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of alleged links to Hezbollah, the BBC has reported.

France has proposed a mediation aimed at replacing Israeli forces with peacekeepers from the French UNIFIL contingent on the five strategic hills Israel is still occupying in south Lebanon, sources told Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath television.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said that the municipal elections will not be postponed despite the devastation caused by more than 13-monthes of war with Israel.

"Postponing the elections is absolutely out of the question," Berri told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Thursday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi said Thursday that “the time has come for unifying arms Lebanon,” adding that “this is what was stipulated in the Taif Agreement.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Thursday that negotiations are ongoing over the border dispute with Lebanon and the release of Lebanese prisoners detained in Israel.

After meeting his French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot in Paris, Saar said that Turkey is playing a negative role in Syria and Lebanon, adding that Israel wants "the stability of Lebanon, the continuation of the ceasefire, and liberating Lebanon from Iranian occupation."

Two people were wounded Thursday in an Israeli drone strike on a car on the Bint Jbeil road in south Lebanon, the Health Ministry said.

President Joseph Aoun’s contacts with the Americans over the past two days “failed to obtain a decision decision from Washington to sway Israel to halt the strikes” on Lebanon, the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The Spanish Civil Guard has carried out an operation against a group of individuals accused of joining a Hezbollah logistics structure in Spain, Spanish media reports said.

The latest Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs “will not be the last,” a Lebanese diplomatic source told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has said that its old ally Hezbollah can no longer have a military role and has to abide by the Lebanese constitution and rules.

"We had an understanding but it no longer exists," Bassil said Tuesday, accusing Hezbollah of going to a war that was not in Lebanon's interest. "This has greatly weakened our relations, but it is still a Lebanese party and we have to talk to them just like we talk to all the other parties."