An Arab Israeli man on Thursday rammed a vehicle into pedestrians in northern Israel before stabbing two soldiers, leaving 10 wounded before being killed by police.

The ramming attack took place at the Karkur junction south of the city of Haifa, police said in a statement.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has addressed Prime Minister Nawaf Salam by saying that “broad administrative decentralization should be also financial or it cannot exist.”

President Joseph Aoun on Thursday congratulated the government, the premier and the ministers on winning parliament’s confidence, while also voicing respect for those who withheld their confidence.

Israel has “received a U.S. green light” to keep its forces on five strategic hills in south Lebanon near Israel’s border, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday.

Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi hinted before Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's funeral on Sunday that the Israeli army was considering an attack on the event, Israel’s Channel 14 has reported.

Israeli Northern Command chief Major General Uri Gordin has told the heads of authorities in north Israel near Lebanon’s border that "the security situation allows for a return (by evacuated residents) to the communities.”

An Israeli drone on Wednesday targeted a car in the town of al-Qasr in the Hermel region near Syria.

Most MPs who spoke on the second day of a parliamentary session debating the new government’s policy statement announced that they would grant the government their votes of confidence.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri clapped his hands in applause Wednesday after MP Wael Abou Faour of the Progressive Socialist Party rejected any normalization agreement between Lebanon and Israel.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday stressed “the importance of building the future on firm and solid foundations based on security and stability.”