Mona Ziade, who helped The Associated Press cover major events out of the Middle East during the 1980s and '90s, including the taking of Western hostages during Lebanon's civil war and Arab-Israeli peace talks, has died. She was 65.

Ziade died Tuesday morning at her home in Beirut from complications of lung cancer after undergoing treatment for months, her daughter Tamara Blanche said. Blanche said that her mother had been unconscious in the hours before she passed away.

Lebanon may reduce or cancel the $11 million bail imposed for the release of Hannibal Gadhafi, son of deposed Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, his lawyer and a judicial official said.

Lebanese authorities arrested the younger Gadhafi in 2015 and accused him of withholding information about the 1978 disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Moussa Sadr in Libya.

President Joseph Aoun stressed Monday that Lebanon’s “only choice” is negotiations with Israel.

“Lebanon has no choice other than negotiation, seeing as in politics there are three work tools: diplomacy, economy and war. When war does not lead to any result, what can we do? The end of every war in the world has been negotiation, and negotiation does not take place with a friend or an ally, but rather with an enemy,” Aoun added.

Hezbollah political bureau member Mahmoud Qmati has said that the “equation” that Israel is “trying to impose on Lebanon” will not continue and “will change.”

“As Lebanon, the state, diplomatic relations and Lebanese army and resistance, we will not allow that this equation remain above our heads and that this aggression continue against our land. The state must fulfill its promises and responsibilities, after it said that it will liberate the land and the captives, put an end to violations and begin reconstruction,” Qmati added.

The U.S. and the Gulf countries have offered Lebanon $16 billion in return for fully disarming Hezbollah and beginning the reconstruction process, MTV’s correspondent at the White House quoted U.S. sources as saying.

“This offer could represent the biggest support and investment package in the country’s history, should the Lebanese state agree to implement the U.S. roadmap that stipulates that the state be the only side that monopolizes arms and decisions,” the sources added.

Disarming Hezbollah and other non-state actors as well as “ending Iran’s proxy activities” is crucial to “ensuring peace and stability in Lebanon and across the region," a U.S. State Department official has said.

"An armed Hezbollah is a threat to Lebanon and its neighbors. The region and the world are watching carefully. A stable Lebanon will present attractive investment opportunities," the official told Fox News.

The Israeli army is readying for several scenarios on the northern front with Lebanon, Israel’s Maariv newspaper said.

“Israeli intelligence has detected increased Hezbollah activity in various Lebanese regions, including North Litani, the Bekaa and south Beirut,” the Israeli daily added.

An Israeli drone strike on Monday targeted a car in the southern town of al-Sharqiyeh in the Nabatiyeh district, killing one person and wounding seven others, the Health Ministry said.

Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath channel identified the person targeted as “Hezbollah commander Mohammad Ali Hadid,” saying he had survived a similar drone strike overnight in the Zefta area.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that Hezbollah is attempting to "rearm" itself.

"We expect the Lebanese government to fulfill its commitment -- to disarm Hezbollah -- but it is clear we will exercise our right of self-defense under the terms of ceasefire," Netanyahu told the Israeli cabinet at its weekly meeting on Sunday.

Hundreds of people gathered in south Lebanon's Nabatiyeh on Sunday to mourn five Hezbollah members killed in recent Israeli attacks, an AFP correspondent said, as Israel warned of intensifying attacks against the Iran-backed group.

On Saturday, an Israeli strike killed four people in Kfar Rumman, Nabatiyeh district, the Lebanese health ministry and the Israeli military said.