European sources have warned in remarks to Sky News Arabia that a large-scale Israeli strike against Lebanon may only be a matter of time.

The sources added that it is unclear whether Israel will treat the Lebanese state as “a complicit or a failure.”

Israeli military officials have warned that they are still not prepared to enter a multi-front war without an urgent budget increase to rebuild their forces and compensate for weapons shortages, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

U.S. General Joseph Clearfield, the new chief of the U.S.-led ceasefire monitoring committee, has vowed to exert efforts to prevent military escalation between Israel and Lebanon, expressing a clear desire to activate the committee’s work and meetings, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported.

Clearfield had met Thursday with President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, in meetings described as “positive and carrying a new spirit in terms of serious work and exerting a bigger efforts in the coming period,” informed ministerial sources told the daily.

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.

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus will preside over the meeting of the Mechanism ceasefire committee in her visit to Lebanon in the next few days, informed sources said.

“She will stress the need for Lebanon’s full commitment to the ceasefire agreement, through Hezbollah’s withdrawal from the South Litani area, the handover of all its arms to the Lebanese state, and the halt of all its military activities, in order to avoid any possible Israeli military action,” the sources told the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal.

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.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he knew everything about the Israeli pagers' attack that targeted Hezbollah's pagers and walkie-talkies, killing 42 people and injuring 4,000, including children and civilians.

The attack on 17 and 18 September 2024 was part of an Israeli operation against Hezbollah, which had started firing rockets into Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians following the Oct. 7 attack.