Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday noted that the FPM is not currently in an alliance with Hezbollah, adding that the ongoing war had started with "a Hezbollah attack on Israel."

More than 1,550 people have been killed in bombardment by Israel since it intensified its air campaign on Lebanon last month.

Lebanon's health ministry reported 63 killed in "Israeli enemy strikes on Lebanon" Monday, raising the death toll from an Israeli strike near a south Beirut hospital to 18. The real toll is likely to be higher due to data gaps.

A hospital director in Lebanon has denied accusations by the Israeli army that Hezbollah is storing money and gold under the hospital.

Fadi Alameh, a member of parliament who is also the director of Sahel General Hospital, denied there are tunnels under the hospital and said that the medical center south of Beirut is now being evacuated.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein said Monday that he held a "very constructive" meeting with Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh and that the U.S. is working with Lebanon and Israel on a "formula that brings an end to this conflict once and for all."

Hochstein added that U.N. resolution 1701 is “no longer enough” and that a new mechanism must be put in place to ensure it is implemented “fairly, accurately, transparently.”

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has stressed that the only solution to the current conflict is “diplomacy.”

With U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein scheduled to arrive in Beirut on Monday amid major escalation in Lebanon, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that this visit is "the last chance before the U.S. elections to reach a solution" in the country.

Israeli airstrikes were targeting Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday night, after the Israeli army warned that it would target Hezbollah's al-Qard al-Hassan financial institution in Haret Hreik, Shiyyah, Ghobeiri, Choueifat, Tahwitat al-Ghadir and Burj al-Barajneh.

The National News Agency reported 11 strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, many of them targeting al-Qard al-Hassan. Other strikes hit the association in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley and in the country's south, NNA added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday accused Iran and its "proxy Hezbollah" of trying to kill him and his wife, vowing that they would pay "a heavy price," after his office reported a drone targeted his residence in Caesarea.

U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British PM Keir Starmer agreed in their meeting in Berlin on Friday to dispatch U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein to Beirut, a diplomatic source said.

Lebanese authorities said two people were killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday in Jounieh, north of Beirut, in the first strike on the area since Hezbollah and Israel started trading fire last year.