United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert began Wednesday a visit to Moscow, as part of her ongoing consultations with regional and international stakeholders.

During her visit, the Special Coordinator is set to meet with senior Russian officials to discuss the latest developments in Lebanon and ways in which the international community can best support the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1701.

Hezbollah Islamic relations official Sheikh Abdel Majid Ammar on Tuesday strongly condemned an Israeli drone strike that killed a senior Jamaa Islamiya military commander near Damour, calling it an attack on Lebanese sovereignty and on “resistance with all its affiliations.”

The Lebanese Foreign Ministry will summon Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani in the coming days over his latest social media post about the removal of weapons in Lebanon, media reports said on Tuesday.

President Joseph Aoun reiterated Tuesday that “any controversial issue can be resolved through dialogue” and that “no one in Lebanon wants to return to war.”

Lebanon's health ministry said a new Israeli strike on Tuesday killed one person, hours after a deadly raid elsewhere in the country despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

"The strike launched by the Israeli enemy" in the southern town of al-Hinniyeh in Tyre district "killed one person," the ministry statement said.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that Lebanon has fulfilled its obligations as per the ceasefire agreement with Israel, adding that Israel is yet to honor the arrangements.

Hezbollah has offered condolences over Pope Francis' death to the Christians of the world and Lebanon, hailing the late pontiff's "clear positions calling for an end to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip... and his support for the Palestinian cause."

President Joseph Aoun has meanwhile called Francis' death "a loss for all humanity, for he was a powerful voice for justice and peace" who called for "dialogue between religions and cultures."

President Joseph Aoun visited Monday Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi who underwent surgery after breaking his hip during Easter Sunday mass.

At the start of a mass in Bkerke, north of Beirut, the 85-year-old Rahi "suffered a broken hip after stumbling on his robe while ascending to the altar", said a statement, carried by the official National News Agency.

Four people were killed and four others wounded when unexploded ordnance blew up inside a Lebanese Army vehicle in the southern town of Braiqaa on Sunday, media report said.

Lebanese authorities have detained several people who they say were planning to launch rockets into Israel and confiscated the weapons they were intending to use, the military said Sunday.

The army said in a statement that the arrests are linked to other detentions announced earlier this week. It added that as military intelligence was investigating that case they got information that a new rocket attack was being planned.