Israel is discussing an Egyptian cease-fire proposal that would see four hostages released in exchange for a two-day halt to the fighting in Gaza, an Israel official said Monday.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein will meet Monday in Tel Aviv with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the the possibility of halting the ongoing war on Lebanon, media reports said.

Hezbollah targeted Monday a military industrial company in Yodfat in northern Israel, southeast of Akka, with a suicide drone, in tribute to slain Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Hezbollah later fired a barrage of advanced rockets towards a naval base in the area of Haifa, with the Israeli military saying Hezbollah launched more than 100 projectiles into Israel on Monday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has noted that the Vatican is “working as a moral force with foreign countries to push for the election of a president” for Lebanon, without “interfering in names” of candidates.

The UK has delivered more than 12,500 ration packs and 79 battlefield medical kits to the Lebanese Armed Forces.

This package of medical supplies and provisions, delivered by the RAF, is funded by the UK’s Integrated Security Fund and will help support the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF).

The British Minister for the Middle East Hamish Falconer on Thursday attended the Lebanon Support Conference in Paris to reiterate calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday callied for an immediate cease-fire, the full implementation of the U.N. resolution that ended the last Israel-Hezbollah war and the deployment of 8,000 Lebanese troops to a buffer zone along the border with Israel.

Mikati spoke at a conference in Paris in support of Lebanon.

Lebanon's official National News Agency said an Israeli strike targeted a car on a highway leading to the capital Beirut, as Israel and Hezbollah fight a month-old war.

"An enemy drone targeted a car on the Kahale road," the NNA said, referring to a mountain area on the main highway between Beirut and the eastern Bekaa Valley.

Fraench President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday his country would support Lebanon with 100 million euros, as Paris hosted an aid conference with big financial aims but slim diplomatic prospects.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday called on the government to “declare its commitement to U.N. resolutions, especially 1559, to avoid a worse situation,” while noting that some of U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein’s proposals “encroach on Lebanese sovereignty.”