Hamish Falconer, the UK Minister for the Middle East, has ended a two-day visit to Lebanon, the British embassy said on Tuesday.

An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in the southern town of Kfar Dajjal on Tuesday, killing one person, media reports said.

Despite a November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israel maintains troops in five areas in southern Lebanon and has kept up regular air strikes.

Israeli opposition chief Yair Lapid has called for a “powerful military operation” against Hezbollah, Lebanese media reports said on Tuesday.

LBCI television meanwhile reported that Israel’s opposition and governing coalition have reached a rare consensus that the situation with Lebanon has reached a point of no return and that another round of war is only a matter of time.

Although the Israeli army “has so far refrained from carrying out strikes in Beirut, no place will be immune if Hezbollah keeps boosting its capabilities,” senior Israeli sources told the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday said Hezbollah “has fully committed to the ceasefire agreement” with Israel.

Berri added that the Lebanese Army has deployed in the South Litani region with more than 9,000 soldiers and officers, noting that the army can deploy up to the international border but pointing out that “what is obstructing that is the continued Israeli occupation of vast parts of southern Lebanese territory.”

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has reportedly suggested that President Joseph Aoun should pick up the phone and call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in order to settle the outstanding issues between Lebanon and Israel.

According to media reports, Barrack voiced his remarks in a meeting with journalists in Turkey.

President Joseph Aoun announced Tuesday that negotiations with Israel are a “unanimous Lebanese choice.”

Mona Ziade, who helped The Associated Press cover major events out of the Middle East during the 1980s and '90s, including the taking of Western hostages during Lebanon's civil war and Arab-Israeli peace talks, has died. She was 65.

Ziade died Tuesday morning at her home in Beirut from complications of lung cancer after undergoing treatment for months, her daughter Tamara Blanche said. Blanche said that her mother had been unconscious in the hours before she passed away.

Lebanon may reduce or cancel the $11 million bail imposed for the release of Hannibal Gadhafi, son of deposed Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, his lawyer and a judicial official said.

Lebanese authorities arrested the younger Gadhafi in 2015 and accused him of withholding information about the 1978 disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Moussa Sadr in Libya.

President Joseph Aoun stressed Monday that Lebanon’s “only choice” is negotiations with Israel.

“Lebanon has no choice other than negotiation, seeing as in politics there are three work tools: diplomacy, economy and war. When war does not lead to any result, what can we do? The end of every war in the world has been negotiation, and negotiation does not take place with a friend or an ally, but rather with an enemy,” Aoun added.