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.

Most MPs who spoke on the second day of a parliamentary session debating the new government’s policy statement announced that they would grant the government their votes of confidence.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri clapped his hands in applause Wednesday after MP Wael Abou Faour of the Progressive Socialist Party rejected any normalization agreement between Lebanon and Israel.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday stressed “the importance of building the future on firm and solid foundations based on security and stability.”

Lea Abou Karnib was with her two sisters and a sibling in a car on the Jarjou - Arab Salim road when an Israeli drone struck a car nearby.

On Wednesday, 16-year-old Abou Karnib died of her wounds, while her two sisters and their sibling survived their injuries.

Hezbollah said Wednesday that its chief Sheikh Naim Qassem met with Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi “prior to their departure from Lebanon.”

The MPs of the Free Patriotic Movement walked out Wednesday of a parliamentary session debating the new government’s policy statement, after Speaker Nabih Berri refused to allow a second MP from the bloc to deliver a speech.