Palestinian militant group Hamas has blamed "individual" actors for firing rockets towards Israel from Lebanon after it handed over several people, saying it was committed to a Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire.

Hamas claimed attacks on Israel from Lebanon during more than a year of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian group's Lebanese ally Hezbollah that erupted over the Gaza war and largely ended with a November truce.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, the Arab world’s only Christian head of state, has congratulated newly elected Pope Leo XIV, expressing the hope that he will strengthen interfaith dialogue.

Aoun, elected in January under multi-confessional Lebanon’s power-sharing system, said in a statement from his office that he hoped the new pontiff would "strengthen dialogue between religions and cultures".

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Thursday met with French Ambassador to Lebanon Herve Magro, who handed him a copy of the documents and maps of the French archive that are related to the Lebanese-Syrian border, the French Ministry said.

President Joseph Aoun on Thursday visited the Central Bank in Beirut’s Hamra area and met with its newly-appointed governor Karim Souaid and his four deputies.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Thursday inspected the northern Bekaa region and the border with Syria.

Thursday’s Israeli airstrikes on the heights of the Nabatieh region killed an unspecified number of Hezbollah members, a Lebanese security source told Sky News Arabia, after the Health Ministry said the raid killed one person and wounded eight others.

President Joseph Aoun on Thursday followed up on the security developments in south Lebanon after violent Israeli strikes targeted the Nabatieh region.

A woman and her daughter narrowly escaped unharmed Thursday after Israeli forces opened fire at their car on the Kfar Kila road in Lebanon’s southern border region, the state-run National News Agency said.

Around 20 violent Israeli airstrikes on Thursday targeted a mountainous area in the Nabatieh district without prior warning.

The Israeli army said the strikes targeted a "strategic" Hezbollah underground project that allegedly contained militants, weapons and wells. It added that the site was rendered inoperable due to the strikes.

An Israeli drone struck Wednesday a house in the southern town of Majdalzoun in the Tyre district, hours after Hamas said that one of its commanders was killed in an Israeli strike on Sidon.

One person was lightly injured in the strike, local media reports said, adding that the targeted house was already destroyed.