The cabinet line-up has reached the final stages and Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam is “working on resolving two points ahead of presenting the final draft to the president in the coming hours,” LBCI TV reported on Monday.

Residents of southern border villages have organized so-called return marches for the second consecutive Sunday, flocking since early morning to the western entrance of Mays al-Jabal and Houla and demanding to enter them accompanied by the Lebanese Army.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday stressed that there are "good" political parties and bad political parties.

The army on Friday reportedly arrested a man who rammed his vehicle into motorbikes carrying Hezbollah supporters during a funeral procession on the Sarafand road.

Hezbollah legislator Ibrahim Moussawi called Friday Israeli strikes on east Lebanon "a very dangerous violation and a blatant and explicit aggression."

Two people were killed and 10 others were wounded in an overnight strike on an unofficial border crossing in eastern Lebanon, as Israel launched four strikes on the Janta border crossing in the eastern province of Baalbek, while two other strikes targeted two illegal Syria-Lebanon border crossings in northern Lebanon late Thursday and early Friday.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty announced Friday after meeting President Joseph Aoun in Baabda that Cairo was “extremely relieved after the finalization of the presidential election in Lebanon.”

Israel has complained to the U.S.-led ceasefire committee that "Iranian diplomats and others are delivering tens of millions of dollars in cash to Hezbollah to fund the group’s revival," The Wall Street Journal quoted sources as saying.

The American newspaper said Friday that it has learned from a U.S. defense official and other sources that Israel threatened to strike Beirut International Airport if Iran keeps using it to smuggle aid to Hezbollah.

The Israeli military said a Hezbollah surveillance drone that was launched toward Israeli airspace on Thursday and intercepted by Israel was a "breach of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon".

"The (army) continues to remain committed to the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon, and will not permit any terrorist activity of this kind," it said.

President Joseph Aoun has called on the country’s political parties to “shun bickering, narrow policies and wrangling over shares.”

An Israeli drone raided Thursday an engineering vehicle in the town of Yarin in south Lebanon, local media reports said, as Israeli soldiers fired machineguns at the southern town of Markaba.

Two civilians were later lightly wounded on the outskirts of Tallousa near Markaba, as a drone struck near their motorbike.