The Free Patriotic Movement is "open to everyone", its leader Jebran Bassil said during a dinner ceremony Tuesday.

"We are open to everyone to end the presidential void," Bassil said, adding that he is determined to continue his efforts to end the crisis in Lebanon through dialogue and consultations.

Israeli drones raided Wednesday Kfakila while artillery shelled Kfarshouba, Houla, and the outskirts of Kfar Hamam, and warplanes broke the sound barrier over Nabatieh and Iqlim al-Toffah.

Israeli jets had raided late Tuesday the southern town of Shihine, targeting the Amal-affiliated Islamic Risala Scout Association. No casualties were reported.

The German government on Wednesday banned a Hamburg-based organization accused of promoting the Iranian leadership's ideology and supporting Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, as police raided 53 properties around the country.

The ban on the Islamic Center Hamburg, or IZH, and its various suborganizations elsewhere in Germany followed searches in November. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said material gathered in the investigation "confirmed the serious suspicions to such a degree that we ordered the ban today."

The Kataeb party criticized Hezbollah Tuesday for "storing weapons between houses".

"Hiding weapons between houses does not support Gaza," al-Kataeb said in a statement, mentioning a strike on "an ammunition depot" in Adloun in south Lebanon.

Hezbollah has repeatedly said that it will stop its attacks if Israel halts its war with Hamas in Gaza. If that happens, both Israel and Hezbollah have “signaled to interlocutors that they would be prepared to begin negotiations for a formal truce,” three Western officials briefed on the sides’ positions and an Israeli official told the New York Times.

“Those negotiations would focus on the withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters from the southernmost areas of Lebanon and the deployment of more soldiers from Lebanon’s official military,” the officials said.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has proposed a package deal involving both the presidency and the premiership, a media report said.

The Free Patriotic Movement’s leadership has so far failed to convince the Progressive Socialist Party and the National Moderation Bloc to “form a centrist force that would exert pressure in the presidential file,” a media report said.

“FPM chief MP Jebran Bassil believes that unifying the initiatives and efforts of the three parties would change the current presidential situation,” Asharq al-Awsat newspaper has reported.

An Israeli drone targeted Tuesday a pickup vehicle in the southern town of Shaqra near the border, killing at least one person.

Another person was injured in the strike, local media outlets said.

Opposition MPs filed Monday a petition asking for a parliamentary session to discuss the ongoing clashes on the southern border.

The petition asks Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to call for a session to discuss the daily border clashes between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, in order to avoid any further escalation.

Speaker Nabih Berri has ruled out an imminent expansion of the Israeli war on Lebanon because “U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein is still communicating with him,” a prominent parliamentary source said.

Hochstein “is still hoping for a ceasefire on Gaza’s front, which is supposed to automatically apply to south Lebanon, which would allow him to move to Beirut to negotiate with him (Berri) over a settlement that would restore calm and stability based on the implementation of Resolution 1701,” the source added, in remarks to Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.