Israeli media reports said that Hezbollah has ramped up its domestic production of explosive-laden UAVs and attack or reconnaissance drones as an easier and cheaper alternative to precision missiles and rockets.

Israeli news portal ynet said Tuesday that Hezbollah has drawn tactical inspiration from the effectiveness of drones in Ukraine as it aims for greater self-sufficiency and less reliance on Iran.

President Joseph Aoun arrived Tuesday in Jordan where he will meet with king Abdullah II.

Two official Lebanese and Jordanian delegations will also meet to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries and regional developments.

U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack will soon visit Beirut to meet with Lebanese officials, local media reports said.

U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus is reportedly leaving her position and her replacement has not yet been announced.

French special envoy to Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian met Tuesday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

Berri urged Paris to "help Lebanon confront the conspiracy that is being plotted against UNIFIL, Lebanon and its south," hours after United Nations peacekeepers said rock-throwing individuals confronted them during a patrol on Tuesday in south Lebanon.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Tuesday said the continued attacks on its troops are “unacceptable,” after a patrol was attacked by residents and a peacekeeper was slapped near the southern town of al-Hallousiyeh.

Noting that the patrol had been coordinated with the Lebanese Army, UNIFIL stressed that freedom of movement is an essential condition for UNIFIL’s mandate and added that it has the right to move with or without Lebanese Army troops.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced Tuesday that “the time has come to build the state,” describing it as his government’s “top mission.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that the latest Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs were a “major scandal,” seeing as “eight months after the signing of the ceasefire agreement in November 2024, Beirut is being bombed again.”

Beirut witnessed a dynamic and promising launch of the first edition of AUTOPARTS EXPO, Lebanon’s first dedicated trade exhibition for the automotive aftermarket and vehicle services industry.

Held at the Mövenpick Hotel in Beirut, the event opened its doors on Tuesday, June 3, to an impressive turnout of professionals, technicians, importers, distributors, and decision-makers from across the country.

Security forces in the Syrian border city of Qusayr have foiled an attempt to smuggle an arms shipment into Lebanon, the Syrian interior ministry said.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said that Israel's discontent about the replacement of U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus is "pleasing to the heart."

In remarks published Thurday in local al-Joumhouria newspaper, Berri said that the Israeli discontent is more than enough reason for him to be pleased by the replacement of Morgan Ortagus.