Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Friday called for detained former Central Bank chief Riad Salameh to appear before her on Wednesday, holding State Prosecutor Judge Jammal al-Jarrah responsible should security forces fail to bring Salameh to the hearing session.

“I reiterate that the Optimum file has been open at the Public Prosecution Office of Mount Lebanon since the issuance of the Capital Markets Authority report around two years ago, and it is also based on the complaint stemming from the Alvarez & Marsal report,” Aoun said in an X post.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea insists on boycotting a presidential dialogue initiated by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, as Lebanon remains without a president since Michel Aoun's term ended in October 2022, almost two years ago.

"I am flexible," Geagea said in a radio interview on Thursday night. "But I cannot be flexible about Hezbollah's decision to start a war in south Lebanon," he added, as he dubbed Berri's dialogue anew "unconstitutional".

The four MPs who have recently become outside the Free Patriotic Movement intend to form “a consultative parliamentary gathering, that would become a pressure group, not a bloc nor a party, and its current main mission would be to produce a solution for the presidential crises,” the four MPs’ sources told al-Jadeed TV.

French presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian held a meeting overnight in Riyadh with Saudi Royal Court adviser Nizar al-Aloula, who is in charge of the Lebanese file, in the presence of Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari.

Hezbollah targeted Friday several Israeli posts while Israeli warplanes raided several times the southern border village of Aitaroun.

Hezbollah targeted the Ma'ayan Baruch post in northern Israel with a suicide drone, and later the Zebdine barracks and buildings and surveillance equipment in Metula and Menara. The group also targeted a post in the occupied Shebaa Farms.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab and MPs Ibrahim Kanaan, Alain Aoun and Simon Abi Ramia met Thursday in Diman with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

Bou Saab and Aoun have been recently expelled from the Free Patriotic Movement while Abi Ramia and Kanaan have resigned from it.

One person was killed Thursday and another one was wounded in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Kafra, nearly 11 months since hostilities broke out between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah later announced the death of one of its fighters "on the road to Jerusalem."

Former Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the confrontation with Hezbollah.

“Another day when the residents of the north feel first hand the complete failure that this government has brought upon us,” Gantz said in a post on X, referring to dozens of rockets fired by Hezbollah at northern Israel earlier in the day.

State Prosecutor Judge Jamal al-Hajjar on Wednesday referred the file of detained former Central Bank governor Riad Salameh to Financial Prosecutor Judge Ali Ibrahim, who charged Salameh and referred him in custody to Beirut First Examining Magistrate Bilal Halawi.

Two people were wounded overnight in an Israeli strike on the southern border town of al-Khiam, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.

Israeli warplanes also raided overnight into Wednesday the outskirts of Zebqine, Aita al-Shaab and Yater in south Lebanon.