Israeli strikes targeted Wednesday the southern city of Tyre and other towns and villages in south Lebanon including Tayrdebba, Nsariyeh, al-Majadel, Srifa, Deir Qanoun, Kfar Remman, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Kfardounine and Bnaafoul.

The Israeli army targeted a car in Dweir and issued evacuation orders for Ghassaniyeh, Houmine al-Fawqa, and Nsariyeh.

As Israeli warplanes pounded Beirut's southern suburbs last March and residents fled in panic, one man found his opportunity. Amid the chaos, he slipped out of his imprisonment in a Hezbollah cell and made his way to the green hills overlooking the Lebanese capital.

There, in the posh diplomatic quarter of Baabda, he disappeared inside the gates of the Ukrainian Embassy.

President Donald Trump's administration has sought -- with very limited success -- to separate Iran and Lebanon peace talks, while Tehran insists the two are linked, complicating efforts to resolve the intertwined conflicts.

The Iran war began with a joint U.S.-Israeli attack -- though the interests of those two countries' leaders have since diverged -- while Lebanese militant group Hezbollah struck Israel shortly thereafter, sparking a devastating Israeli military response.

Israeli airstrikes on the historic city of Tyre in southern Lebanon and surrounding areas killed 11 people Tuesday amid an Israeli military warning for the entire city to evacuate.

Israel's army said its forces killed a gunman who had managed to infiltrate Israeli territory from Lebanon and opened fire on its troops.

The Americans have recently conveyed a set of Israeli conditions to the Lebanese side, which were rejected by Speaker Nabih Berri and Hezbollah, Al-Jadeed TV reported on Tuesday.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa revealed Tuesday that Washington will present a written paper to Speaker Nabih Berri regarding the so-called pilot zones in south Lebanon, where the Lebanese Army would take control from Israel's occupying forces.

Let Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qasse "tell me what he wants. Does he want to fight? Let him go and fight; we've seen the results," President Joseph Aoun has said, according to his visitors.

The Christian quarter in south Lebanon's Tyre, the last pocket of the coastal city spared from Israeli threats, was emptied out on Tuesday after an unprecedented warning for the city's residents.

Hezbollah does not object to withdrawing its fighters from the area south of the Litani River according to a "point for point" principle, which means that Israel should also pull out its forces in tandem, sources said.

The Israeli army on Tuesday said its forces killed a gunman who had managed to infiltrate Israeli territory from Lebanon and opened fire on its troops.