French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday called an Israeli air strike on a southern suburb of Beirut "unacceptable," saying it was a "violation of the ceasefire" agreed in November.

Such attacks "play into the hands of Hezbollah," Macron told reporters after a meeting with President Joseph Aoun in Paris.

The United Nations envoy for Lebanon called for restraint by all sides on Friday, after Israel carried out air strikes in southern Lebanon following new rocket fire towards Israel.

"Today's exchange of fire across the Blue Line, the second such incident in less than a week, is deeply concerning," Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said in a statement, four months into a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. "A return to wider conflict in Lebanon would be devastating for civilians on both sides of the Blue Line and must be avoided at all costs. Restraint from all parties is therefore critically needed."

The Israeli army on Friday told residents in a south Beirut suburb to leave the area around "Hezbollah facilities" immediately, the first such warning since a November ceasefire took hold in Lebanon.

"Anyone located in the building marked in red as shown on the map, and the surrounding buildings... are near Hezbollah facilities... you must immediately evacuate these buildings," military spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on X that included a map showing the building in the Beirut southern suburb of Saint Therese.

Israel carried out air strikes in southern Lebanon Friday, rattling an already fragile truce that largely ended more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah.

It was the second time rockets had been fired from Lebanon since the November ceasefire, and the second time the Iran-backed Hezbollah denied involvement.

Lebanon’s state news agency said an Israeli drone strike in the country’s south hit a car, killing two people on Thursday afternoon in the village of Baraasheet.

The National News Agency gave no further details and it was not immediately clear if the two killed were members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatthas accused Israel of exploiting followers of his minority faith in Syria as part of a broader plan to divide the Middle East along sectarian lines.

The head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammad Raad, noted Thursday that Hezbollah “has firmly committed to the ceasefire” agreement with Israel, “although it knew that the enemy will not abide by it, and despite the Israeli violations that have persisted since the first days.”

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced Thursday that he did not support the appointment of Karim Souaid as central bank chief for “a host of reasons,” including “keenness on protecting depositors’ rights and preserving the state’s assets.”

President Joseph Aoun has announced that Hezbollah’s arms will not be removed by force and that normalization with Israel is not currently on the table.

President Joseph Aoun visits France on Friday, his first trip to a European country since his January election and as Paris pushes Beirut for long-demanded political and economic reforms.