Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has stressed Lebanon’s reliance on the efforts of friendly countries for restoring peace in south Lebanon.

In an interview published Monday in al-Joumhouria newspaper, Mikati hoped that friendly countries would succeed to restore peace and calm along the southern border.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday voiced rejection of “confining the election of a president to a person, a project or an influence-related motive.”

Moreover, al-Rahi said he does not accept any attempt to “harm the army’s unity and stability and its confidence in itself and in its command, especially that the country and its security are on the mouth of a volcano.”

The British embassy in Lebanon on Saturday said that "the UK echoes UNIFIL's call for a cessation of hostilities across the Blue Line and for renewed commitment to implementing U.N. Security Council resolution 1701."

"Yesterday's calm on the Blue Line offers a chance to refocus on the long term solution for peace," the embassy said in a post on the X platform, formerly Twitter, while reposting a message from UNIFIL's commander.

The Israeli army said Saturday that it shot down a surface-to-air missile launched from Lebanese territory at an Israeli military drone.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri will call for a legislative session next month, during which parliament would discuss extending the term of Army chief General Joseph Aoun, ahead of his planned retirement in January.

"I will call for a session during the first half of December," Berri told al-Jadeed TV, assuring that there are only two options, either the extension of Aoun's term or the appointment of a new army chief. "There is no third option and no assignment (of the highest ranking officer)."

As calm returned to Gaza and to Lebanon's southern border Friday, former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat remained worried.

In an interview published Friday in al-Joumhouria newspaper, Jumblat said he is cautious about the truce and feared that the war was still at its beginning.

UNIFIL Head Lt. Gen. Aroldo Lázaro says he is “concerned by the ongoing intensification of the exchanges of fire along the Blue Line that has already claimed too many lives, caused significant damage, and jeopardized livelihoods.”

Ahead of a slated several-day pause in fighting in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Thursday that once the “short” temporary truce with Hamas ends, the Israeli military will resume “with intensity” for at least two more months.

A number of Lebanese politicians and spiritual leaders on Thursday reacted to the killing of the son of Hezbollah’s top MP Mohammed Raad in an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon.

French special presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian is returning to Lebanon "soon".

"The country is on the brink of war," Le Drian said in an interview with France Info, stressing the presidential and governmental void.