Lebanon's foreign ministry has urged the international community to condemn the "ongoing" Israeli attacks and to pressure Israel to stop dragging Lebanon into an all-out war, after 14 people were wounded Monday in two Israeli air strikes on Ghaziyeh.

In a statement Monday following the strikes, the foreign ministry, called on the international community to pressure Israel "to stop its provocative attempts... to lure Lebanon into a war that (Beirut) is seeking to prevent".

Violent Israeli airstrikes on Monday targeted the town of Ghaziyeh on Sidon's outskirts for the first time since the beginning of the Israel-Hezbollah border clashes.

Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said the strikes targeted "Hezbollah arms depots near Sidon in response to the explosion of a hostile aircraft whose debris was found near the Tiberias area (in northern Israel) this afternoon."

Activists blocked Monday the road leading to the Egyptian embassy in Beirut in protest against the closure of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

Egypt, which controls the Rafah border crossing, has repeatedly warned against any "forced displacement" of Palestinians from Gaza into the Sinai desert.

Israeli warplanes carried out Monday several airstrikes on the southern border towns of Yarin, al-Bustan, and Odeisseh.

The Israeli army said its warplanes attacked "Hezbollah infrastructure" in the southern border town of Dhayra.

Israeli warplanes on Sunday carried out a strike on the Abou al-Laban neighborhood in the southern border town of Aita al-Shaab, the National News Agency said.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein has said that the US is working in a quiet manner to figure out how to end the cross-border conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel, which has seen the most intense escalation of fighting between the two in nearly two decades.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday vowed that Israel will “pay in blood” for the killing of civilians in south Lebanon, as he responded to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s threats to strike deep in Lebanon.

“The enemy will pay in blood for the killing of our women and children in Nabatiyeh, Sawwaneh and elsewhere,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech marking Hezbollah’s ‘Martyr Leaders Day’.

Israel's foreign minister Israel Katz called on the world Friday to pressure on Hezbollah to withdraw from South Lebanon.

"The world must pressure Iran and Hezbollah to withdraw from South Lebanon and implement U.N. resolution 1701," Katz said at a Security Conference in Munich.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Friday reiterated that Lebanon “will remain committed to all U.N. resolutions,” stressing that Israel should “implement these resolutions, halt its aggression against the South and violations of Lebanese sovereignty, and withdraw from all occupied Lebanese territories.”

A poll published by right-wing Israeli newspaper Maariv has showed that 71% of Israelis believe that Israel should launch a large-scale military operation against Lebanon.