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.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Israel would seek no approval to strike targets in Lebanon or Gaza, despite agreeing to ceasefires.

"Israel is an independent state. We will defend ourselves by our own means and we will continue to determine our fate," Netanyahu told a meeting of government ministers Sunday.

The health ministry has said that Israeli strikes on the country's south and east had killed three people Sunday, despite an ongoing ceasefire deal, as Israel claimed it had targeted two members of Hezbollah.

Officials said one person had been killed in an "Israeli enemy strike" on a car in Naqoura, in Tyre province, while another strike on a vehicle in Nabi Sheet, in the country's eastern Baalbek region, resulted in another fatality.

The Israeli military on Monday accused U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon of shooting down one of its drones a day earlier during an intelligence-gathering mission.

"Yesterday, an IDF intelligence-gathering drone was downed in the area of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon during a routine intelligence-gathering activity in the area," military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said on X.

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.

Lebanon's health ministry said two people were killed and another wounded in two Israeli strikes on the country's south Saturday, the latest attacks despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

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

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.