Israeli artillery shelling on Sunday targeting the outskirts of the southern Lebanese border towns of Shihin, Umm al-Tout, Halta and Kfarshouba.

The Israeli army radio meanwhile said a rocket fired from south Lebanon landed in an open area in the Western Galilee in northern Israel.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi told caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati during a bilateral meeting in Riyadh that Hezbollah is “independent in decisions and actions and does not receive orders from Iran.”

“Hezbollah’s measures in south Lebanon are based on wisdom, rationality and deterrence in order to prevent aggression,” Raisi added.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has warned Hezbollah that launching a war would result in widespread destruction in Lebanon similar to that in Gaza, where Israel is battling Hamas militants.

"If it (Hezbollah) makes this kind of mistake here, the ones who will pay the price will be first and foremost Lebanese citizens," Gallant told soldiers on Israel's northern border in remarks relayed by his office.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah noted Saturday that his group has escalated its attacks against Israel over the past week through introducing new weapons to the battle, noting that military “pressure” on Israeli will continue from Lebanon’s front as long as it is pressing on with its war on Gaza.

Hezbollah on Saturday said it attacked four Israeli military barracks and posts on and near Lebanon's border, shortly after Israel carried out a drone strike on a pickup truck 45 kilometers deep into Lebanon.

An Israeli drone struck Saturday a pickup truck deep in Lebanese territory, official media in Lebanon said, after weeks of skirmishes mainly limited to border areas since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said "an enemy drone targeted a pickup truck" on a farmland in the Zahrani area on Lebanon's coast, some 45 kilometers from the Israeli border, without reporting any casualties. Media reports said the pickup was targeted in a banana grove and that the driver escaped unharmed.

The Israeli army said it was carrying out airstrikes on “a series of Hezbollah targets” on Friday evening in response to Hezbollah attacks earlier in the day.

“Three Israeli army soldiers were seriously wounded when an anti-tank missile was fired at a military post in the town of Manara,” Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on the X platform.

“Consensus” has been reached on the release of a number of Palestinian women and child prisoners in return for 100 women and a child held captive by Hamas, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported on Friday.

Complicating Israel's military push inside the Gaza Strip is the fate of around 240 hostages abducted on October 7.

Former General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim said he played a role in a deal that allowed hundreds of foreign nationals and dozens of seriously injured Palestinians to leave Gaza after more than three weeks under siege.

Ibrahim told ad-Diyar newspaper, in remarks published Friday, that the lawyers of dual passport holders in Gaza had contacted him to help these dual nationals leave Gaza as Hamas asked in return for allowing wounded civilians to get hospitalized in Egypt.

The head of Hezbollah’s religious committee, Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek, has called for the election of a new Lebanese president.

“It’s about time the Lebanese met around a dialogue table to exit the lethal vacuum through electing a president and restoring regularity in state institutions,” Yazbek said.