French President Emmanuel Macron lauded Tuesday President Joseph Aoun's "brave decisions to achieve arms monopoly," adding that Paris is determined to organize two conferences for supporting Lebanon.

One of the conferences is to drum up financial aid for the reconstruction of war-hit regions in Lebanon. The second will be to support the Lebanese Army which was tasked with implementing a plan to disarm Hezbollah, but lacks funds and equipment and has said that the Israeli occupation and strikes on south Lebanon are obstructing its deployment there.

Hezbollah MP Hassan Ezzeddine condemned Tuesday Israel's weekend strikes on construction machinery in south Lebanon, describing the attack as "a crime against civilians, the economy and national sovereignty".

Ezzeddine criticized Hezbollah's opponents who call for sovereignty (through Hezbollah's disarmament in order for the state to extend its authority over all Lebanese territory and take the war and peace decisions) and then "fall silent" when Israel violates Lebanon's sovereignty "with such impudence."

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has called on the international community to pressure Israel to halt its attacks on Lebanon, as he welcomed the ceasefire in Gaza.

"While our government is committed to the ceasefire (reached in late November between Lebanon and Israel) and is working diligently to extend state authority over all Lebanese territory with its own forces and to monopolize weapons, the country is still exposed to almost daily Israeli aggressions," Salam said Monday, referring to the government's decision to disarm Hezbollah.

The Health Ministry on Monday suspended the operations of the Tannourine Mineral Water company, ordering that its water bottles be pulled from the market due to their contamination with the pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam "strongly" condemned Monday Israeli threats to a Lebanese Engineer advocating for the reconstruction of his community in south Lebanon, re-iterating the government's full commitment to the reconstruction (of war-hit regions) and to the right of all residents of the South to "a safe and sustainable return."

Mazraani is a Lebanese activist and engineer from the southern border town of Houla. He founded the "Gathering of the Residents of the Southern Border Localities" to advocate for the reconstruction of war-hit villages, especially the southern border villages which were badly damaged in the latest Israeli war.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a historic speech in Israel’s Knesset on Monday that “in Lebanon, the dagger of Hezbollah, long aimed at Israel’s throat, has been totally shattered.”

“My administration is actively supporting the new president of Lebanon (Joseph Aoun) in his mission to permanently disarm Hezbollah’s terror brigades. He’s doing very well,” Trump added, in a speech focused on the U.S.-brokered ceasefire and captive exhange deal between Israel and Hamas.

President Joseph Aoun on Monday called for negotiations with Israel, after U.S. President Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire in Gaza.

"The Lebanese state has previously negotiated with Israel under American and United Nations auspices, resulting in an agreement to demarcate the maritime border... so what prevents the same thing from happening again to find solutions to the outstanding issues," Aoun said according to a presidency statement.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said that Israel's recent strikes on construction machinery in south Lebanon was a message that the south's "reconstruction is not allowed".

He told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, in remarks published Monday that the destruction of more than 300 vehicles, including bulldozers, excavators, and cranes, used for removing rubble in order to begin the reconstruction effort, is an Israeli plan to turn the southern border towns into an "unlivable demilitarized buffer zone."

MP Ibrahim al-Moussawi of Hezbollah has said that “Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s move to instruct the foreign minister to file a complaint to the U.N. Security Council over the latest Israeli attacks in the South was a step in the right direction, although it came late.”

“We look forward to further activation of the Lebanese diplomacy and governmental steps in this regard,” Moussawi added.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Sunday called on Hezbollah to hand over its arms to the Lebanese state instead of criticizing it over Israel's attacks and the stalled reconstruction efforts.