Two Israeli airstrikes targeted Tuesday the Sidon suburb of Haret Saida, killing at least five people and wounding several others.

The strike on Sidon marked the second such attack on the historic coastal city since the recent escalation between Hezbollah and Israel.

A rocket attack on Tuesday injured eight Austrian soldiers with a U.N. peacekeeping contingent in southern Lebanon, the Austrian defense ministry said, condemning the attack and adding it was "currently not possible to say where the attack came from".

"Eight Austrian army soldiers from the UNIFIL contingent (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) were injured today at 12:58 pm (1058 GMT) by a rocket hit in Camp Naqoura; none of them seriously," the statement said, adding the injuries were "minor and superficial".

Senior Israeli officials say the negotiations on a cease-fire deal in Lebanon are "in advanced stages," according to Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

White House special envoy Amos Hochstein may travel to Israel and Lebanon before the November 5 U.S. presidential elections to attempt to reach final agreements, the report says.

Israel is discussing an Egyptian cease-fire proposal that would see four hostages released in exchange for a two-day halt to the fighting in Gaza, an Israel official said Monday.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein will meet Monday in Tel Aviv with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the the possibility of halting the ongoing war on Lebanon, media reports said.

Hezbollah targeted Monday a military industrial company in Yodfat in northern Israel, southeast of Akka, with a suicide drone, in tribute to slain Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Hezbollah later fired a barrage of advanced rockets towards a naval base in the area of Haifa, with the Israeli military saying Hezbollah launched more than 100 projectiles into Israel on Monday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has noted that the Vatican is “working as a moral force with foreign countries to push for the election of a president” for Lebanon, without “interfering in names” of candidates.

The UK has delivered more than 12,500 ration packs and 79 battlefield medical kits to the Lebanese Armed Forces.

This package of medical supplies and provisions, delivered by the RAF, is funded by the UK’s Integrated Security Fund and will help support the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF).

The British Minister for the Middle East Hamish Falconer on Thursday attended the Lebanon Support Conference in Paris to reiterate calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday callied for an immediate cease-fire, the full implementation of the U.N. resolution that ended the last Israel-Hezbollah war and the deployment of 8,000 Lebanese troops to a buffer zone along the border with Israel.

Mikati spoke at a conference in Paris in support of Lebanon.