Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon killed at least four people on Wednesday, the health ministry and state media said, after a morning Israeli drone attack on United Nations peacekeepers.

Israel regularly bombs Lebanon despite a November ceasefire that ended over a year of hostilities with Iran-backed Hezbollah.

One of the proposals for implementing the Lebanese Army’s plan for disarming Hezbollah and the other armed groups suggests starting from Beirut, where the army would place monitors for Hezbollah’s arms depots and declare that they have become in the Lebanese state’s custody, ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

“Based on this step, Lebanon would ask Israel to implement a step in return,” the daily added.

Hezbollah and Amal's ministers are inclined to attend a government's session that will discuss the army's plan for Hezbollah's disarmament this Friday, Hezbollah Minister Mohammad Haydar said.

"Amal and Hezbollah are however awaiting responses to some concerns related to the topics that will be discussed, and whether they attend or not greatly depends on the developments, Haydar said in an interview, confirming that high-level talks are ongoing before the thorny session.

France on Wednesday condemned an Israeli drone attack near U.N. Interim Force members in Lebanon, and called for the security of peacekeepers to be respected.

At least two people were killed and four others wounded in Israeli attacks on separate areas of south Lebanon Wednesday .

An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in the southern town of Yater, killing one person, the Health Ministry said.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has awarded the Israel Defense Prize to Israel’s foreign intelligence agency Mossad for its role in the operation that killed former Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut’s southern suburbs last year.

At the ceremony at Herzog’s residence in Jerusalem, a Mossad recruitment and operations officer, identified only as “G”, spoke on behalf of the agency and disclosed new details of the operation.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is working on securing a “smooth” cabinet session on Friday, in coordination with Baabda and Ain el-Tineh, and he prefers that the army’s plan on arms monopoly be “unanimously approved, without resorting to a vote,” media reports said.

“The ministers of the Shiite Duo will attend the session but will not take part in discussing the plan’s details, but will rather voice their stances clearly,” the reports said.

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon said Wednesday that Israeli drones dropped four grenades near peacekeepers in "one of the most serious attacks" on its personnel since a November ceasefire.

The truce ended more than a year of hostilities and two months of open war between Israel and Hezbollah, but the United Nations has reported several attacks on its positions in south Lebanon since.

Speaker Nabih Berri is showing “major political leniency” to pass Friday’s key cabinet session in a smooth manner, the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal reported on Tuesday.

“He will visit the Baabda Palace to meet with President Joseph Aoun over the next two days,” al-Anbaa said, adding that the two leaders will discuss “how to provide full protection for the army’s mission” of disarming Hezbollah and all armed groups in the country.

Amal and Hezbollah's ministers will attend a cabinet session that will discuss Friday a plan prepared by the army to disarm Hezbollah, but the ministers will not discuss the plan, sources told Saudi news interactive channel al-Hadath.

The sources said that a Hezbollah minister will voice a strong objection during the session and that Amal and Hezbollah have warned against a major clash if Cabinet decides to disarm the group within a timetable.