President Joseph Aoun announced Monday that “domestic and external contacts are ongoing to consolidate security and stability in the South through negotiations via the Mechanism committee, which will hold a meeting on Friday.”

“The choice of negotiations is the alternative to a war that will not yield any result, but will rather inflict further harm and ruin to Lebanon and the Lebanese without any exception,” Aoun said, in a meeting with a delegation from the Tashnag Party.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack will arrive Monday in Israel for talks with top officials on preventing escalation in Syria and Lebanon, media reports said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested the cancellation of a trial session scheduled for Monday to allow him to meet with the U.S. official, the reports added.

Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal and a delegation of Arab and foreign ambassadors and military attachés arrived Monday at the Tyre barracks at the start of a tour organized by the Lebanese Army to brief them on the implementation of the disarmament plan in the South Litani sector and Israel’s attacks.

They were received by the commander of the South Litani sector, Brigadier General Nicolas Tabet.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee criticized "Hezbollah's supporters" who attacked Lebanese President Joseph Aoun after the latter condemned a mass shooting at a Jewish holiday event that killed at least 11 people in Sydney.

Adraee said those who "live on the rhetoric of death see a threat in every humanitarian stance."

Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir has conducted a situation assessment at Israel's Northern Command.

“In a short period, we eliminated the Hezbollah commander (Haitham Tabatabai) and the head of Hamas' manufacturing division. We will not allow the enemy to expand and will respond to any violation of the agreement. Our policy is clear, in all arenas, and here in Lebanon -- we will continue to act and thwart threats before they develop,” Zamir told troops and officers.

Ali Akbar Velayati, the international affairs advisor to Iran's supreme leader, met with Hezbollah’s representative in Iran Abdallah Safieddine on Sunday and stressed that Tehran will continue to firmly support Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is “one of the most important pillars of the resistance front and is playing a key role in confronting Zionism,” Velayati said.

Israel resumed drone strikes on south Lebanon on Sunday, after an apparent suspension that followed its assassination of Hezbollah military chief Haitham al-Tabatabai in a Beirut southern suburbs raid.

The Israeli military said it would "temporarily" suspend a strike planned for Saturday that was intended to target what it described as Hezbollah military infrastructure in southern Lebanon.

President Joseph Aoun has said that the latest remarks attributed to U.S. envoy Tom Barrack are "rejected by all Lebanese."

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam held a meeting Friday at the Grand Serail with MPs Amin Sherri and Hassan Fadlallah of Hezbollah.

Following the meeting, Fadlallah stated: "My colleague and I met with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam to discuss a range of issues of concern to all Lebanese, especially as we continue to witness this ongoing Israeli aggression against our country, as happened today and as happens on most days.”