An Israeli drone on Saturday bombed a deserted room in a residential neighborhood in the Nabatieh district town of Houmine al-Tahta, which lies around 40 kilometers away from the nearest border point, in a significant escalation of hostilities, the National News Agency said.

The strike did not cause any casualties according to the town's mayor.

Hezbollah said Saturday that it mounted two morning attacks on the Birkat Risha Israeli post near the border, inflicting deaths and injuries.

Media reports said four Israeli soldiers were wounded in the attacks, one of them critically.

Israel's military has repeatedly attacked the Lebanese Army near the border over the past two months, prompting alarm in the Biden administration and sharp rebukes from top U.S. officials to Israeli leadership, CNN has reported.

"The Israelis have struck Lebanese Armed Forces positions more than 34 times since October 7, including with small arms and artillery fire, drones and helicopters," according to U.S. officials, a regional security source, and a list of the incidents compiled by the U.S. and reviewed by CNN.

German airline group Lufthansa resumed its flights to and from Beirut on Friday after they were suspended on October 13 as tensions on Lebanon's border with Israel soared and the war in Gaza raged.

Lufthansa's subsidiaries SWISS and Eurowings also resumed their flights, the group said.

Diplomacy is the best way to deal with the threat Hezbollah poses to Israel from its northern border with Lebanon, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters in Tel Aviv on Friday.

“We also believe that the threat can be dealt with through diplomacy and does not require the launching of a new war,” Sullivan said.

Retired members of the armed forces protested Friday their low salaries at Beirut's Riad al-Solh Square, blocking the road leading to the Grand Serail ahead of a cabinet session at the Serail in downtown Beirut.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati postponed the session to Tuesday due to a lack of quorum, as some ministers couldn't reach the Grand Serail and the Free Patriotic Movement ministers boycotted the session.

Hezbollah fired Friday heavy-caliber Burkan rockets at the al-Jirdah Israeli post as Israeli shelling hit at least 10 southern Lebanese border towns.

Hezbollah also targeted the Bayyad Blida Israeli post and Israeli forces at the Mattat and the Ramim barracks, "inflicting deaths and injuries."

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Friday accused caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati of seeking to violate the constitution and the law and MPs of seeking to “legislate in favor of a single person,” in reference to efforts to extend the term of Army chief Joseph Aoun.

During a meeting to discuss security on the Lebanese-Syrian border, British Ambassador to Lebanon Hamish Cowell expressed his condolences for the death of a Lebanese soldier in Lebanon last week and called for the restoration of calm on the Blue Line.

Leading international ratings agency Moody's has affirmed the Government of Lebanon's issuer rating at C and has changed the outlook to stable from no outlook.