President Joseph Aoun stressed Tuesday in a press conference his commitment to disarm Hezbollah and implement the state's monopoly on arms.

"We want the south only under the army's control," Aoun said, as he welcomed foreign diplomats and ambassadors at the Baabda palace. "We want to rebuild all what has been destroyed as a result of attacks and adventures."

To Saudi Arabia, it is important that the Lebanese decisions come from the Lebanese state, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said.

Berri seemed satisfied about a meeting he had with Saudi envoy Prince Yazeed bin Farhan. He told Assas news portal, in remarks published Tuesday, that his meeting last week with bin Farhan was "excellent."

A man was wounded in an overnight Israeli strike on the southern town of Zebqine, the health ministry said Tuesday.

The strike comes as Israel intensified its attacks on Lebanon, despite a ceasefire reached in November 2024, a week after the Lebanese army said it had completed disarming Hezbollah south of the Litani River.

Israeli airstrikes targeted Monday Wadi Burghoz, Ansar's outskirts, al-Mahmoudiyeh, and al-Mourouj, with the Israeli army claiming it struck Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon.

"A short while ago, the (Israeli military) struck terror infrastructure in several areas of southern Lebanon... used by Hezbollah to conduct drills and training for terrorists" to attack Israeli forces and civilians, the military said in a statement.

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."

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."

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.