Violent Israeli airstrikes on Thursday targeted hills surrounding several Bekaa towns including Hermel and Shmestar.

The strikes killed two people, according to the Health Ministry, while several children were wounded by flying glass shrapnel from their school's windows in Shmestar. Many students also fainted according to media reports.

President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri met Thursday with head of the ceasefire monitoring committee, U.S. General Clearfield, amid intensified Israeli strikes on south and east Lebanon.

Aoun and Salam urged Clearfield to pressure Israel to halt its almost-daily attacks and end its occupation of five hills in south Lebanon, stressing that Lebanon is committed to the agreement.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack on Wednesday said that “Lebanon must resolve its own divisions and reclaim its sovereignty.”

“On October 23, 1983, 241 U.S. Marines, sailors, and soldiers, 58 French military personnel, and six Lebanese civilians were killed when a suicide bomber destroyed the Marine barracks in Beirut -- one of the deadliest attacks on Americans overseas,” Barrack said in a post on the X platform.

President Joseph Aoun stressed Wednesday the need to hold the parliamentary elections on time, adding that the participation of expats is a must.

Aoun's comments come amid tensions over the current electoral law which only allows expats to vote for six newly-introduced seats in parliament, with Sixty-five MPs -- forming a parliamentary majority -- demanding to amend the law in order to allow expats to vote for all 128 seats.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has said that “Hezbollah must become a normal political party without an armed wing.”

“There will be no backing down from the state’s monopolization of military force,” Salam added, in an interview with French magazine Paris Match.

Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir on Tuesday made an inspection visit to an ongoing Israeli military exercise near Lebanon’s border.

"Alongside continuing operational activity, thwarting threats and maintaining a high level of preparedness and readiness, you must return to training to improve efficiency and preparedness for war on all fronts," Zamir told commanders.

One person was killed in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a motorbike in Ain Qana in Iqlim Al-Tuffah on Wednesday.

The Israeli army claimed that the man killed, Issa Karbala, was a unit commander with Hezbollah's al-Radwan force and had been "involved in moving weapons inside Lebanon" and "advancing terrorist plots against Israel."

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Tuesday called on U.S. envoy Tom Barrack to stop what he called his "threats" against Lebanon.

Lebanese Forces MP George Adwan said Tuesday his party is keen on holding the parliamentary elections on time, urging the government and parliament to vote on an amendment to the law that would allow expats to vote for all 128 seats.

Hezbollah and Amal argue that they do not enjoy the same campaigning freedom that other parties enjoy abroad and are objecting the amendment of the current law, which only allows expats to vote for six newly-introduced seats in parliament.

Israeli ground forces destroyed launching sites belonging to Hezbollah earlier this week in the Shebaa Farms area near the border, the Israeli army said on Tuesday.