Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat urged Arab countries to unite in order to protect the security of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.

Jumblat's statements came ahead of an emergency Arab League summit and days after Israel said that Israeli forces would stay in parts of southern Syria and southern Lebanon for an indefinite period.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam inspected south Lebanon on Friday and said the reconstruction of towns and homes destroyed by Israel is a top priority of his government.

One person was killed and two others wounded when an Israeli drone targeted a pickup truck on the outskirts of the eastern city of Hermel on Thursday, the state-run National News Agency said.

An Arab Israeli man on Thursday rammed a vehicle into pedestrians in northern Israel before stabbing two soldiers, leaving 10 wounded before being killed by police.

The ramming attack took place at the Karkur junction south of the city of Haifa, police said in a statement.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has addressed Prime Minister Nawaf Salam by saying that “broad administrative decentralization should be also financial or it cannot exist.”

President Joseph Aoun on Thursday congratulated the government, the premier and the ministers on winning parliament’s confidence, while also voicing respect for those who withheld their confidence.

Israel has “received a U.S. green light” to keep its forces on five strategic hills in south Lebanon near Israel’s border, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday.

Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi hinted before Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's funeral on Sunday that the Israeli army was considering an attack on the event, Israel’s Channel 14 has reported.

Israeli Northern Command chief Major General Uri Gordin has told the heads of authorities in north Israel near Lebanon’s border that "the security situation allows for a return (by evacuated residents) to the communities.”

An Israeli drone on Wednesday targeted a car in the town of al-Qasr in the Hermel region near Syria.