Israel’s top general commanding the restive northern frontier has reportedly begun actively lobbying leaders to okay a ground offensive into southern Lebanon with the goal of securing a buffer zone and halting Hezbollah’s attacks on Israeli settlements in the Galilee, amid disagreements over the matter among politicians and defense brass.

Hezbollah said Sunday that it fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at the Rawya barracks in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in response to attacks on Lebanese towns, especially on the town of Sarafand which is distant from the border.

Hezbollah said Saturday that it fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at an Israeli artillery and precision missile base in Yiftah Elifelet northwest of Lake Tiberias, deep in northern Israel.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein will soon visit Tel Aviv as well as Lebanon, al-Jadeed television quoted sources as saying.

Hezbollah targeted Friday military positions in northern Israel and in the occupied Shebaa and Kfarshouba regions with suicide drones and other weapons while Israeli warplanes raided twice the southern town of Bint Jbeil.

The jets targeted early Friday a house and later the al-Wadi region in Bint Jbeil, causing no casualties, the National News agency said. Later in the day, artillery shelled the southern border town of Kfarshouba.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has accused Hezbollah of “attempting to promote the idea that it would seize control of the various joints of the state in return for it (Hezbollah) offering concessions in the South.”

An elite Israeli army unit conducted a "highly unusual raid" in Syria earlier this week and destroyed an underground precision missile factory that Israel and the U.S. claim was built by Iran, three sources briefed on the operation told U.S. news portal Axios.

The Israeli army announced Thursday that it managed to “rescue and return” an Israeli civilian boat from Lebanon’s territorial waters, without mentioning anything about any coordination with the UNIFIL forces.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned three individuals, five companies and two vessels that are allegedly involved in smuggling oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to generate revenue for Hezbollah.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein will arrive in the region carrying the following message: “Refrain from escalation” against Hezbollah, Israel’s Channel 12 reported.