Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh has suggested that the country’s top three Christian leaders nominate themselves for the presidency as an exit from the current presidential crisis, referring to himself, Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea.

“The balances have not changed and no one can elect a president today before a settlement in the region, which will reflect positively on Lebanon,” Franjieh added, in an interview on al-Jadeed TV.

In recent weeks, the Israeli army’s 146th Division and the 205th Reserve Armored Brigade held a divisional and brigade exercise simulating “a maneuver in Lebanon,” the Israeli army said on Monday.

“The exercise simulated combat scenarios in the northern arena, the rapid deployment of forces in the field, the functioning of the division and brigade headquarters and the readiness of the forces for an attack,” the Israeli army said in a statement.

One person was killed and several civilians were injured Monday in an Israeli drone strike on a motorbike outside the Salah Ghandour Hospital in the southern town of Bint Jbeil.

"An enemy drone" targeted "a motorcycle near the Salah Ghandour hospital in the town of Bint Jbeil", killing the motorcycle driver and wounding others, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) said, without specifying whether they were civilians.

An Israeli drone struck Monday a motorbike in the southern town of Bint Jbeil as Hezbollah targeted a building used by Israeli soldiers in Margaliot and soldiers and equipment in the Malkia post.

The group said it has carried out a combined drone, missile and artillery attack on al-Malkia, using suicide drones, guided missiles and artillery shells.

At least one person was reportedly killed Sunday when an Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle in the border town of Naqoura.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said that his approach for dialogue to end the presidential vacuum is "known" by the ambassadors of the five-nation group for Lebanon.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday hit back at the threats that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched on Thursday.

“Netanyahu thinks that he is good with psychological warfare,” Nasrallah said sarcastically during a speech commemorating late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and his companions, who were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Friday marked Lebanon’s Liberation and Resistance Day by calling for “preserving and defending” the country during the current period.

“The entire region, including Lebanon, is witnessing a genocidal war” by Israel, Berri said in a “message to the Lebanese.”

Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has expressed his concern over the possible impact of the regional developments on Lebanon, calling for “consensus and dialogue among the Lebanese to exit the crisis of the presidential vacuum.”

“A domestic settlement among the Lebanese parties is what’s essential,” Jumblat, who visited Doha this week, told Qatar’s al-Sharq newspaper.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has criticized anew old FPM ally Hezbollah for opening a war on the southern border with Israel.

Bassil told Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai that Lebanon has enough problems, from a refugee crisis to an economic collapse and a presidential void.