Hezbollah attacked overnight through Monday two Israeli forces near the Zar'it post and the Abu Djaj heights and another group of soldiers at the Raheb post as Israel hit several areas of southern Lebanon.

Israeli warplanes struck a two-story house in Shihine and the southern towns of Tayr Harfa, Merwahin and al-Taybeh.

An Israeli strike Sunday on south Lebanon killed a Hezbollah fighter, with a security official saying the target was a high-level commander who survived.

Since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel on October 7, the Lebanese-Israeli border has seen near-daily exchanges of fire between Israel's army and Lebanon's Hezbollah, an ally of Gaza-based Hamas.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday urged Speaker Nabih Berri to call for successive electoral session to elect a new president “without waiting for any sign from abroad.”

“The election of a president is MPs’ first duty … while continuing to refrain from doing this duty is a blatant treason against the people’s confidence,” al-Rahi warned in his Sunday Mass sermon.

Two Hezbollah members were killed Saturday in an Israeli drone strike on their car in the southern town of al-Bazouriyeh near Tyre, some 20 kilometers from the nearest point of the border with Israel.

Efforts to avert an Israeli war on Lebanon are nearing success, Kuwait's al-Anbaa newspaper reported on Saturday.

Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has warned that Israel would "receive a real slap in the face" if it expanded the conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border.

Since the surprise October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel, there have been near daily exchanges of cross-border fire between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian militants.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Friday said that Israel is “committed to returning the residents of the north to their homes,” after tens of thousands were evacuated amid daily clashes with Hezbollah.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday charged that “instead of performing its duties to achieve the interests of Lebanon and its people,” the caretaker government has “ceded the decision to a party and allowed it to turn the country into a battlefield,” apparently referring to Hezbollah and its clashes with Israel.

Head of Hezbollah's bloc in parliament Mohammed Raad said Friday that Israel "is not ready" for a war with Lebanon as Hezbollah would fight "with all its might."

Since the start of the Gaza war, Israel and Hezbollah have traded cross-border strikes with gradually escalating intensity, even though neither side is believed to seek an all-out war which is bound to devastate both countries.

A member of Israel's War Cabinet confirmed that early in the war against Hamas in Gaza, an Israeli preemptive strike against Hezbollah was called off at the last minute.

Gadi Eisenkot, a former army chief, said he was among those arguing against such a strike in what he described as a stormy Oct. 11 Cabinet meeting that left him hoarse from shouting.