Although former President Michel Aoun stands against Hezbollah’s clashes with Israel on Lebanon’s southern border, the former president is still keen on maintaining good relations with the Iran-backed group.

Aoun told pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper, in remarks published Thursday, that he would be happy if Hezbollah won the war with Israel, although he opposes it. "I would celebrate with them if they won, and would be sad if, God forbid, they lost."

MP Ibrahim Kanaan of the Strong Lebanon bloc on Wednesday announced his resignation from the Free Patriotic Movement led by MP Jebran Bassil.

Kanaan had on August 14 announced an initiative aimed at “unifying the ranks” of the FPM.

Israeli warplanes raided Wednesday the Taoumat Niha heights near the town of Ain al-Tineh in the Western Bekaa, hours after an air strike hit a lorry loaded with Hezbollah missiles in the Rasm al-Hadath area in the Baalbek region.

Hezbollah later announced the death of one of its members from the city of Baalbek on the road to Jerusalem.

Egyptian Ambassador to Lebanon Alaa Moussa has said that Cairo is working on sparing Lebanon a bigger war through its efforts to reach a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

Noting that “this has been Egypt’s stance from the beginning,” Moussa said Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has stressed “the need not to expand the conflict or ignite the southern front.”

Druze leader Walid Jumblat has noted that Hezbollah’s response to the assassination of the commander Fouad Shukur was “very calculated.”

“Hezbollah’s penetration of the Israeli defenses is an important matter,” Jumblat added, in an interview on Qatar’s al-Arabi TV.

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil has again criticized Hezbollah’s so-called “Gaza support front” in south Lebanon, noting that “the FPM had the courage from the first day after October 7 to demand that Lebanon not be linked to other arenas and to the interests of other countries.”

“Since that date, Lebanon has been fearing strikes, and unfortunately this matter has affected the arrival of expats during the month of August,” Bassil added, in a speech at the annual dinner of the FPM’s Koura department.

A Lebanese security source said Wednesday that an Israeli air strike hit a lorry loaded with Hezbollah missiles overnight, days after a major flare-up between the regional foes.

Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military did not immediately comment.

Kandice Ardiel, the Deputy Spokesperson of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), has said that the situation in south Lebanon has become less tense following Sunday’s flare-up between Israel and Hezbollah.

In an interview with al-Hurra television, Ardiel added that she is reassured that the war will end soon.

Stefanie McCollum, Canada's Ambassador to Lebanon, has welcomed the Lebanese government’s latest announced plan for stability in the south.

"It would see the LAF (Lebanese Army) assuring the security in the south," McCollum said, in an interview on LBCI television.

Three civilians were injured Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike on the southern town of al-Majadel in the Tyre district, as relative calm returned following a heavy exchange of strikes between Israel and Hezbollah on Sunday.

A fourth civilian was moderately injured in a strike on Shihine, the Health Ministry said.