German airline group Lufthansa said Thursday it was extending a suspension of flights to Lebanese capital Beirut until October 15 due to heightened regional tensions.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein will arrive in the region carrying the following message: “Refrain from escalation” against Hezbollah, Israel’s Channel 12 reported.

Hezbollah targeted several military bases and posts in northern Israel on Thursday as the Israeli army bombed villages in southern Lebanon.

In response to attacks on southern villages and an Israeli drone strike that killed two teenagers riding a motorbike in the al-Bayyada area on Wednesday, Hezbollah said it for the first time targeted the Rosh HaNikra Israeli settlement with volleys of rockets.

Retired servicemen on Wednesday blocked roads around the Grand Serail as well as the nearby Ring highway and roads in the Bekaa and North, after caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati convened a surprise Cabinet session in an apparent bid to avoid the retirees’ protests.

The retired servicemen had managed to prevent the caretaker Cabinet from convening on Tuesday after they blocked the roads leading to the Grand Serail.

European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell met Thursday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, as he visits Lebanon to prevent further escalation of the Gaza war.

Berri told Borell during their meeting in Ain el-Tineh that "Lebanon does not want war but that it has the right to defend itself and is able to do it," while Borell said after the meeting that Lebanon cannot protect its foreign interests if there is no domestic accord, urging for a solution to the presidential impasse.

The Israeli army might invade parts of Syria and Lebanon’s Bekaa in any upcoming war against Hezbollah, a media report said.

Hezbollah on Wednesday announced four attacks with missiles and “appropriate weapons” on four Israeli military posts in northern Israel and the occupied Shebaa Farms.

Israeli warplanes had at dawn carried out more than 15 strikes on forests and groves on the outskirts of the Tyre district towns of Zibqin, al-Shaaitiyeh, al-Qlayleh, al-Hinniyeh, Majdal Zoun and Tayr Harfa, causing extensive damage to crops, properties and buildings in the groves of al-Qlayleh.

Senior Hezbollah official Sayyed Hashem Safieddine has addressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “his army” by saying that “through the current way that they’re following, they won’t be able to restore security and serenity for their northern settlers to enable them to return.”

“Accordingly, the only way which we had announced from the very beginning would be halting the killing, destruction and massacres in Gaza, so that the front here in south Lebanon could be deactivated,” Safieddine, who is the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, added.

Druze leader Walid Jumblat has warned that current war between Israel and the Palestinians “will not end,” calling for a “settlement” in Lebanon to protect the country.

“According to all expectations, it seems that the war will not end and that we are only at its beginning,” Jumblat said in an X post.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant oversaw military exercises in northern Israel, where he asked troops to prepare for an allegedly impending ground operation in Lebanon.

The exercises involved simulating ground combat in Lebanese territory.