President Joseph Aoun visited Monday Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi who underwent surgery after breaking his hip during Easter Sunday mass.

At the start of a mass in Bkerke, north of Beirut, the 85-year-old Rahi "suffered a broken hip after stumbling on his robe while ascending to the altar", said a statement, carried by the official National News Agency.

Four people were killed and four others wounded when unexploded ordnance blew up inside a Lebanese Army vehicle in the southern town of Braiqaa on Sunday, media report said.

Lebanese authorities have detained several people who they say were planning to launch rockets into Israel and confiscated the weapons they were intending to use, the military said Sunday.

The army said in a statement that the arrests are linked to other detentions announced earlier this week. It added that as military intelligence was investigating that case they got information that a new rocket attack was being planned.

President Joseph Aoun stressed Sunday that the Lebanese “no longer want war,” adding that the thorny issue of Hezbollah’s arms will be addressed in a calm and responsible manner.

Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Morgan Ortagus has ridiculed Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem’s latest remarks on his group’s controversial arsenal of weapons.

The American University of Beirut (AUB) launched Fifty Years of Amnesia, a series of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990).

The initiative, organized by the Department of History and Archaeology in partnership with civil society organizations, student societies, artists, and activists, seeks to break the decades-long silence around one of the most formative and devastating periods in Lebanon’s modern history.

MP Hassan Fadlallah of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc noted Thursday that “Lebanon is still living under a continuous Israeli aggression leading to the fall of martyrs and wounded from our people.”

The ministers of the Lebanese Forces on Thursday reiterated their call for setting a timeframe for the handover of Hezbollah’s weapons, Industry Minister Joe Issa al-Khoury said.

Israel was supposed to fully withdraw from Lebanon under a ceasefire reached in late November after more than a year of fighting. Israeli forces withdrew from villages in southern Lebanon but stayed in five "strategic" overlook locations along the border inside Lebanon.

The Israeli army also continued to carry out strikes against what it says are militant targets and Israel's defense minister said Wednesday that Israeli troops will stay "indefinitely" in "security zones" in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and Syria.

An Israeli drone strike targeted a motorcycle Thursday in the southern town of Aitaroun, killing one person, according to the Health Ministry.