German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius arrived Thursday in Beirut on a surprise visit, amid a war that is raging between Israel and Hamas and growing violence on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.

The British Embassy in Beirut has announced updated Travel Advice for Lebanon.

The U.S. and Israel are discussing what to do in case Hezbollah joined the war.

U.S. President Joe Biden said he hasn't promised Israel that U.S. forces would fight alongside Israeli troops in response to any attack by Hezbollah against Israel.

Fromer Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has blamed the U.S. for sending weapons and equipment to Israel.

"Can’t you propose a ceasefire instead of bringing more troops and equipment?" Jumblat asked U.S. President Joe Biden who arrived Wednesday in Tel Aviv on a solidarity visit, on the X platform.

A fresh exchange of gunfire erupted Wednesday afternoon between Israel and Hezbollah on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

“Hezbollah is targeting Israeli surveillance infrastructure on the border with Lebanon,” Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV reported, adding that guided missiles were also fired at the Ras al-Naqoura and Jal al-Alam Israeli military posts.

Hezbollah Executive Council head Sayyed Hashem Safieddine on Wednesday expressed strong condemnation and outrage over Tuesday’s massacre at a Gaza hospital, blaming the U.S. and the West for “spilling the blood of the peoples.”

“The bombardment that targeted the hospital yesterday confirms that the attack was premeditated,” Safieddine told a Hezbollah rally in Beirut’s southern suburbs that was organized to condemn the hospital carnage.

U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to show the world that the U.S. stands in solidarity with Israelis during his visit there Wednesday, and offered an assessment that the deadly explosion at a Gaza Strip hospital apparently was not carried out by the Israeli military.

"Based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you," Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting. But Biden said there were "a lot of people out there" who weren't sure what caused the blast.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday called on the country’s political forces to elect a new president to confront the rapid developments in the region and Lebanon.

“In the face of what is happening in the region and the escalation of the Israeli aggression against Palestine, Gaza and Lebanon, we are before a chance to elect a president, so shall we seize it?” Berru said, as parliament convened to elect two secretaries, three commissioners and the members of the parliamentary committees.

Israel shelled Tuesday border areas in south Lebanon after three anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon, causing casualties on the Israeli side.

Three Israelis were injured, one of them critically wounded, Israeli reports said, as Israel shelled with artillery al-Khiam, Hamames, Kfarkela, Rmeish, Markaba, Aitaroun, and al-Bustan's outskirts.

The Israeli army on Monday fired artillery shells at the outskirts of the Lebanese border town of Dhayra after Hezbollah attacked military posts on the frontier.

In a statement, Hezbollah said its fighters attacked five Israeli military posts with "the right and appropriate weapons." It also said that the group achieved "certain hits."