MP Marwan Hamadeh sparked panic on Wednesday by saying that an Israel-Hezbollah war would erupt within days or even “hours,” citing diplomats informed on the negotiations in the region.

A few hours later, Hamadeh appeared to downplay his own remarks, telling al-Jadeed television that his statement was “blown out of proportion” and that he based his analysis on “alarming developments on the ground that took place over the past 48 hours.”

Former General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has ruled out an “all-out war,” despite the soaring tensions in Lebanon and the region following Israel’s assassination of Fouad Shukur in Beirut and Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

“Any potential escalation in Lebanon will be controlled,” Ibrahim said.

Israeli warplanes waged overnight into Thursday a series of strikes on more than ten southern border towns and a town near Sarafand.

The Israeli army said it hit Hezbollah targets there, including weapons depots, military buildings and a launchpad.

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Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad has rejected that Électricité du Liban chairman Kamal Hayek be held responsible for the latest blackout in the country, after caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati referred the file to the judiciary.

"I was surprised with what happened … I wasn’t expecting this injustice represented in the measure taken by Mikati and he has no right to pin the blame on a single party,” Fayyad said in an interview with MTV.

An Israeli drone targeted Wednesday a car in the city of Sidon near the Ain el-Helweh camp, hours after another drone strike on a car in the southern town of Beit Leef killed a Hezbollah fighter.

In response to the Beit Leef strike, Hezbollah targeted the Hadb Yaroun post in northern Israel with a suicide drone and the Ramim barracks with Katyusha rockets.

Hezbollah launched Tuesday several rocket salvos at a command center in north Israel, in response to an Israeli strike that targeted a car in Deir Qanoun in the Tyre district the previous day, killing a Hezbollah fighter.

Hezbollah said in a statement it targeted a command center in Ga'aton "in response to the assassination in Deir Qanoun."

Lebanon’s permanent mission to the U.N. has filed a complaint to the Security Council over the repeated breaking of the sound barrier over the Lebanese regions by Israeli warplanes, including over the capital Beirut.

The complaint comes at the instructions of caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a “positive” meeting Monday that was conducted in “a good atmosphere,” Netanyahu’s office said in an English-language post on the X platform.

“The meeting lasted approximately three hours. The Prime Minister reiterated Israel's commitment to the current American proposal on the release of our hostages, which takes into account Israel's security needs, which he strongly insists on,” the office added.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday noted that the electricity crisis of the past two days proves that the management of the electricity sector has been a “total failure” for the past 15 years.

“There is not a single indication that this management will change, and accordingly only one solution remains: involving the private sector immediately in the process of producing electricity and distributing it across Lebanon,” Geagea said.