German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius arrived Thursday in Beirut on a surprise visit, amid a war that is raging between Israel and Hamas and growing violence on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.

The British Embassy in Beirut has announced updated Travel Advice for Lebanon.

The U.S. and Israel are discussing what to do in case Hezbollah joined the war.

U.S. President Joe Biden said he hasn't promised Israel that U.S. forces would fight alongside Israeli troops in response to any attack by Hezbollah against Israel.

The security departments of the international organizations in Lebanon have prepared a plan to evacuate employees and workers in coordination with the Lebanese Army, a media report said.

“The army will allow these to use military airports and small ports for evacuation should the Beirut international airport be closed,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.

Saudi Arabia has called for all citizens to leave Lebanon "immediately" as tensions mount along Lebanon's southern border with Israel.

The Gulf kingdom's embassy in Beirut said it was "closely following the developments" in southern Lebanon, where at least 18 people have been killed in exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Palestinian militants on one side and Israel on the other.

A Hezbollah spokesperson said Wednesday the Lebanese Red Cross has collected the remains of four of the group’s militants.

An AP photojournalist saw three body bags and a bag of remains transferred from the Lebanese Red Cross to Hezbollah’s Islamic Health Unit at Hiram Hospital, which is near southern Lebanon’s city of Tyre.

Fromer Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has blamed the U.S. for sending weapons and equipment to Israel.

"Can’t you propose a ceasefire instead of bringing more troops and equipment?" Jumblat asked U.S. President Joe Biden who arrived Wednesday in Tel Aviv on a solidarity visit, on the X platform.

A fresh exchange of gunfire erupted Wednesday afternoon between Israel and Hezbollah on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

“Hezbollah is targeting Israeli surveillance infrastructure on the border with Lebanon,” Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV reported, adding that guided missiles were also fired at the Ras al-Naqoura and Jal al-Alam Israeli military posts.

Hezbollah Executive Council head Sayyed Hashem Safieddine on Wednesday expressed strong condemnation and outrage over Tuesday’s massacre at a Gaza hospital, blaming the U.S. and the West for “spilling the blood of the peoples.”

“The bombardment that targeted the hospital yesterday confirms that the attack was premeditated,” Safieddine told a Hezbollah rally in Beirut’s southern suburbs that was organized to condemn the hospital carnage.

Security forces fired Wednesday tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who rallied outside the U.S. embassy in the Beirut suburb of Awkar to condemn an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital.

Protestors hurled stones, many of them wearing Palestinian keffiyeh scarves and raising the Palestinian flag. Local media outlets reported cases of suffocation, amid heavy tear gas fire that made it difficult for medics to help the suffocating protesters.