Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has met with Marada leader and Hezbollah presidential candidate Suleiman Franjieh in Clemenceau.

"The Progressive Socialist Party is working on crystallizing a domestic solution with all parties," PSP MP Bilal Abdallah said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Tuesday stressed that a ceasefire in Gaza would be the cornerstone for the beginning of all solutions in the region.

The Israeli army on Tuesday said it carried out a combined strike with warplanes and artillery on dozens of Hezbollah military buildings and infrastructure in Wadi Slouqi in south Lebanon, a strategic valley that lies a few kilometers away from the frontier.

The Israeli army’s northern region commander, Major General Ori Gordin, has inspected a military exercise in which troops trained on “waging an attack on Lebanon as part of raising the level of readiness,” the Israeli army said on Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch called on Lebanon Tuesday to release a son of Libya's former leader Moammar Gadhafi, saying he had been held on "spurious charges" for eight years.

Lebanon in 2015 arrested and accused Hannibal Gadhafi, known for living the high life, of withholding information about the disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Imam Moussa Sadr in 1978.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday said preventing the spread of the Gaza conflict to Lebanon at all costs should be one of the top priorities in the region.

Israeli warplanes and artillery struck Tuesday the border towns of Wadi Slouki, Houla, Kfarkila, Mays al-Jabal, and al-Abbasiyya in south lebanon.

The Israeli army used phosphorus bombs, and dropped leaflets on Kfarkila warning residents that Hezbollah is launching missiles from the region.

Several Hamas officials who were living in Lebanon have fled to neighboring countries, in the wake of Israel’s assassination of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation has reported.

Lebanese officials discussed five points with U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein during his visit last week to Lebanon, a media report said.

Below are the five points, as published Monday by al-Liwaa newspaper:

Hezbollah targeted Monday gatherings of Israeli troops near the Mattat and the Ramim barracks, surveillance equipment in Metula, and the post of Birkat Risha with Burkan rockets .

Israel shelled the southerns towns of Dhaira, al-Jebbayn, Tayr Harfa, Aita al-Shaab, Hanine, Shihine, al-Hamames hill near al-Khiam, the Marjeyoun plain, and Em el-Tout.