Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that “peace between Israel and Lebanon is possible,” calling on the Lebanese government to “begin direct negotiations with Israel.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday said that the Raouche Rock event proved that “Hezbollah has not learned anything from everything that has happened and has not drawn lessons from the tragedies it plunged Lebanon and the Lebanese into.”

“In whose face was the finger raised yesterday on the Raouche Rock? The Israeli attacks on Lebanon are countless, so was that finger raised to confront them? Or was it raised in the face of the majority of Beirut’s residents and the Lebanese in general?” Geagea wondered, referring to a laser illustration of Nasrallah’s famous finger gesture that was beamed onto the Raouche Rock during Thursday’s event.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam does not intend to resign or stop performing his duties and he is “reviewing the government’s work with the aim of rectifying and enhancing the performance,” Deputy PM Tarek Mitri said Friday after meeting with Salam.

This comes after Hezbollah defied Salam and Lebanese authorities by illuminating the iconic Raouche Rock with images of its slain chiefs Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine despite controversy and authorities’ refusal to grant permission for such a move.

Israel's air force carried out airstrikes Friday on eastern Lebanon, the Lebanese state-run news agency reported without giving any word on casualties. The Israeli military said it struck a site used for manufacturing precision missiles.

The airstrikes took place near the Lebanese village of Saraain in the Bekaa Valley region, according to the National News Agency. They are the latest strikes since the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war ended with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in November.

British Ambassador to Lebanon Hamish Cowell has launched, with the Minister of Energy and Water Joe Saddi, Lebanon’s National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP 2025–2030).

Since 2024, the UK partnered with the Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation to provide targeted technical support to help update the NREAP, a strategic roadmap that outlines Lebanon’s renewable energy ambitions and implementation priorities for the coming years.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that there is a “historic” opportunity in Lebanon and that the U.S. "remains very committed in that regard" and to ensuring there is "a strong Lebanese state."

He added that this Lebanese state should be “respectful of the diversity of that country” and “free of the influence of Iran and Hezbollah and others who might undermine that stability.”

Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said that “supplying Hezbollah with rockets is not impossible.”

In a TV interview broadcast Wednesday evening, Ghalibaf said that had he been Hezbollah’s leader, he would have “waged war on Israel at depths of 100 and 200 kilometers.”

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Israel to withdraw from south Lebanon, in an interview with Saudi news interactive channel al-Hadath.

"The Lebanese army must regain control of this entire region," Macron said, adding that France will continue to support Lebanon's army.

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji has said the only force that remains in Lebanon is the legitimate government after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Hezbollah should not be underestimated, describing it as a "continuing force" with influence well beyond Lebanon.

Khamenei said former Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah "is gone, but the wealth he created remains."

Hezbollah on Thursday beamed images of its slain leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine on Beirut's iconic Raouche Rock, defying Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and a number of Beirut MPs and anti-Hezbollah politicians.

Hezbollah also beamed the Lebanese flag and a picture of Nasrallah along with ex-PMs Rafik and Saad Hariri.