Families of the Beirut port blast victims protested Monday the appointment of Gracia Azzi as the Director General of Customs in front of her office at the Beirut port.

Azzi was summoned for questioning by Judge Tarek Bitar in relation to the 2020 Beirut Port explosion.

Army chief Rodolphe Haykal will visit Washington from February 3 to 5, media reports said.

Haykal will present to Washington detailed military maps, and a list of Hezbollah sites and tunnels, local TV network MTV said.

The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, has warned that U.S. President Donald Trump "wants to intervene in all regions of the world to prevent democratic life, aiming to confiscate the world's resources."

He added that Trump and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, "mobilized American and Israeli agents in Iran in an attempt to topple the regime and change the equation of 'Resistance Iran' into another form under their management."

The local and international consensus, which weeks ago resulted in postponing the second phase of the disarmament plan for several weeks, was linked to the latest developments in Iran, a media report said.

Visiting Saudi envoy Prince Yazid bin Farhan told Lebanese figure whom he met on Thursday that the process of disarming armed groups in Lebanon “will continue until the end and the decision is final,” a media report said.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, in a phone call with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, affirmed Cairo's “support for Lebanese national institutions in fulfilling their full responsibilities to maintain the security and stability of their country,” the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said.

Abdelatty expressed his welcome for Lebanon's announcement regarding the completion of the first phase of the plan to confine weapons to the state south of the Litani River, considered this a step that "reflects a clear commitment to strengthening state sovereignty and consolidating the role of its legitimate institutions."

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has called President Joseph Aoun and discussed with him the state's monopoly on arms, MTV said.

The call took place on Thursday and was "long" and "positive", with relations getting calmer between Geagea and Aoun, according to the Lebanese TV network.

An Israeli drone has dropped a grenade near UNIFIL peacekeepers in south Lebanon in the latest such incident, the U.N. force said on Friday.

“Yesterday, peacekeepers on a planned patrol near Adeisse were warned by locals about a potential danger at a home, and discovered an explosive device connected to a detonating cord,” UNIFIL said in a statement.

President Joseph Aoun on Friday presided over a security meeting in Baabda that was attended by Minister of Defense Michel Menassa, Minister of Interior Ahmed al-Hajjar, Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal, and the heads of the various security agencies.

The president praised the ongoing cooperation and coordination between security forces at all levels. He emphasized the importance of maintaining high security readiness, diligent follow-up, and providing the data necessary for the smooth operation of security efforts.

Four people accused of a kidnapping in Lebanon for Israel's Mossad spy agency last month have been charged, a judicial official said, after a retired security officer whose brother was linked to an Israeli airman's disappearance went missing.

Israel has apprehended suspects in Lebanon before and Mossad is accused of regularly attempting to contact Lebanese people to facilitate its operations, while Lebanon has arrested dozens of people on suspicion of collaborating with Israel over the years.