Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has said that the group is ready to resist Israel even if all it has "is a piece of wood".

"When we say we are ready, we mean that we are ready for defense, not to start a war or initiate it. But if a battle is imposed on us, even if all we have is a piece of wood, we will not allow the Israelis to pass," he said Sunday in an interview with al-Manar, adding that "resistance is a reaction not an action."

The head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc, MP Mohammad Raad, has stressed “the need for some in Lebanon to realize that the enemy’s goal is to swallow Lebanon, including them, and that it is creating an excuse after another to achieve this objective.”

“All Lebanese must unify their stance to prevent the enemy from achieving its goals, especially that the most important thing blocking aggravated Zionist aggression is the unity of the Lebanese stance and the coherence of Lebanon’s domestic front,” Raad added.

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus, who is currently in Israel, will visit Lebanon from Monday to Wednesday, media reports said.

The reports said Ortagus will meet with President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam and will take part in a meeting for the ceasefire committee, known as the Mechanism, on Wednesday.

An Israeli drone strike on Saturday targeted a car in the southern town of Harouf, killing one person and wounding another.

UNIFIL marked Friday the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations with a ceremony held at its headquarters in Naqoura in south Lebanon.

The ceremony also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the adoption of Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, which enshrined the role of women and recognized their contributions to global peace and security.

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Friday made an inspection visit to south Lebanon aboard a UNIFIL helicopter, in which he assessed the destruction of border villages at the hands of Israel and inspected the Blue Line and the five points occupied by the Israelis.

Rajji also visited UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura on the occasion of the U.N.’s 80th establishment anniversary, lauding the U.N. force’s role in maintaining peace and stability in south Lebanon.

Lebanese journalist Sami kleib warned Friday that Israel would escalate its targeted assassinations and its attacks in Lebanon in the coming days, but ruled out the possibility of a full-scale war.

Kleib said he has obtained information confirming that Israel will expand its attacks on Hezbollah and on regions that support the group and will intensify its targeting of military and political Hezbollah officials.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has said that diplomacy to end the Israeli violations has failed despite the government's efforts, as Israel despite a ceasefire reached almost a year ago kept up its strikes on Lebanon almost on a daily-basis.

On Friday, a strike on the southern town of Toul killed two people and injured two others, a day after strikes on south and east Lebanon killed four people, including an elderly woman.

Kataeb Party leader MP Sami Gemayel told Friday Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri that the right of the Lebanese expatriates to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections would not "isolate" the Shiites. "The ones isolating them from the rest of the Lebanese are those who are rejecting the logic of the state and holding onto their arms," he said.

Gemayel said that Berri's opinion about the expats' voting does not grant him the right to refuse discussing it in Parliament in a plenary session.

An Israeli drone struck Friday a car in the southern town of Toul, killing two people and wounding two others, a day after Israeli strikes in eastern and southern Lebanon killed four people, including an elderly woman.

The Israeli army identified a man killed in Toul as Abbas Hassan Karaki, saying he was the logistics head of Hezbollah’s southern front command.