The Israeli army targeted Thursday several areas in south Lebanon, killing at least one person.

A drone on a motorbike in Deir Seryan killed one person, the National News Agency said. Another strike later hit the outskirts of Ainata - Bint Jbeil.

A convoy of armored vehicles carrying French peacekeepers barrels through southern Lebanon. Last year's war between Israeli forces and Hezbollah left villages scarred and empty. Rubble lines the roads. Torn Lebanese flags and Hezbollah banners flutter from shattered buildings.

From a UNIFIL base above Kafr Kila, the town below looks like a wasteland of crumpled concrete. Across the valley, bulldozers churn dust as they build new positions on land held by Israeli forces despite the November ceasefire.

British Ambassador to Lebanon Hamish Cowell has inaugurated a newly upgraded Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) training facility in Zahrani in South Lebanon, the embassy said in a statement Thursday.

"The LAF facility was developed and upgraded through the support of the UK Government’s Integrated Security Fund. It will serve as a vital training facility for LAF troops strengthening their readiness for deployment across South Lebanon. The UK is also providing 1,000 Personal Protection Equipment sets to protect LAF soldiers as they carry out critical duties," the statement said.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri met Wednesday in Ain el-Tineh with U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin and a congressional delegation from the Republican and Democratic parties.

“Despite the international efforts exerted, and the U.S. mediation in particular, to compel Israel to comply with international legitimacy and to implement the ceasefire agreement agreed on in November 2024 and Resolution 1701, we have been surprised by counter-efforts against Resolutions 425 and 1701 and against the ceasefire agreement from the same sponsor (Washington), targeting the presence of the UNIFIL forces and their mission,” Berri said during the meeting.

U.S. special envoy to Lebanon Tom Barrack will return to Beirut next week after U.S. envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus' return from Israel, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper reported.

The daily said that Barrack will continue his mission in Lebanon and that Ortagus has not been officially tasked with the Lebanese file but was invited by Barrack for her wide network of connections in Israel.

Presidential advisor Mohammad Obeid and Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad have met to discuss Hezbollah's disarmament, Ad-Diyar newspaper reported Wednesday.

According to the daily, Obeid assured Raad that If Israel does not abide by the American paper - by withdrawing from south Lebanon and halting its daily attacks -, the Cabinet's decision to disarm Hezbollah would be considered null.

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Wednesday described the government’s decision on arms monopolization as “historic,” saying that Lebanon has asked U.S. envoy Tom Barrack for “an Israeli step in return.”

“We’ve gone through decades of occupation and the hegemony of movements that have nothing to do with Lebanon,” Rajji added in remarks to Al-Arabiya TV, while stressing that “there will be no turning back on the decision to monopolize arms.”

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called on Hezbollah to “cooperate with the Lebanese Army,” which is preparing a plan for monopolizing arms in the hands of the state, unnamed sources told Al-Arabiya television.

Berri also stressed to Hezbollah that “there is no benefit from using street action to object against the disarmament decision or force its drop,” the sources said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil warned against using force to disarm Hezbollah, saying that it is not acceptable to threaten Hezbollah while Israel has not stopped its aggressions and is still occupying five hills in south Lebanon.

Bassil said in an interview Tuesday with Saudi state-owned news channel al-Arabiya that using force against Hezbollah would lead to domestic conflicts after the government tasked the Lebanese army to submit a plan by the end of August to disarm the group.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has criticized remarks by Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem as he urged the group to hand over its arms and declare its "ultimate loyalty to Lebanon".

"There can be no civil war," al-Rahi told Saudi state-owned news channel al-Arabiya Tuesday, after Qassem said last week that Hezbollah disarmament could lead to "civil war" and vowed to fight to keep the group's arsenal.