After visiting Qatar, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati will continue a tour of other Arab countries, as he works to ensure Lebanon does not enter the Hamas-Israel war.

Mikati said Wednesday that time is of the essence in stopping the Hamas-Israel war from “going out of control” and affecting Lebanon and the wider region.

The U.S. State Department has called on Lebanon to elect a president who can “guide Lebanon safely through the current challenges.”

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has said that the U.S. is monitoring the situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border “very, very closely.”

Hezbollah announced overnight that it has carried out 105 attacks against Israeli posts on Lebanon’s border since October 8.

The attacks killed and wounded 120 soldiers and destroyed nine tanks, two personnel carriers and two Humvees, Hezbollah said in an infographic.

Hezbollah targeted and destroyed Tuesday a Merkava tank in the Israeli Branit post and targeted the al-Marj Israeli post facing the southern border town of Markaba with guided missiles.

It earlier fired guided missiles at an Israeli force that was setting up an ambush on a hill. Hezbollah said it inflicted casualties among the members of the Israeli force on the al-Khazzan hill near al-Assi post.

Kataeb Party chief MP Sami Gemayel on Tuesday said that “Lebanon can still avoid being dragged into war through fully deploying the Lebanese Army on the Lebanese border.”

Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has dubbed absurd Hezbollah and FPM chief Jebran Bassil's refusal to extend the term of Army chief Gen. Joseph Aoun, ahead of his planned retirement in January.

"For political reasons related to Hezbollah and Bassil, we are being blackmailed again into not extending Aoun's term," Jumblat told LBCI. "This is absurd."

The Strong Republic bloc of the Lebanese Forces on Tuesday submitted a draft law aimed at extending the term of Army Commander General Joseph Aoun.

Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has warned against the interference of some factions in the south, where Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging daily cross-border fire.

"I prefer for the war and peace decision to remain only in the hands of Hezbollah," Jubmlat said in an interview with LBCI, as he feared that some "unorganized" organizations might drag Lebanon into an all-out war against its will.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has stressed that what matters today is to “neutralize Lebanon” in the war between Israel and Hamas, noting that “Israel is besieged and the U.S., as well as Iran and Hezbollah, do not want to expand the war.”