Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced Monday that Israel is "committed to making the Litani River the new security border at the end of this war."

President Joseph Aoun warned Monday that the hand that would extend to harm civil peace will be cut off.

"No one in Lebanon wants civil war, and those who seek to exploit the situation won't succeed," Aoun said, adding that Security forces are implementing strict measures to maintain order, including arrests and weapon seizures.

The investigating judge in the Beirut port explosion case, Judge Tarek Bitar, concluded his investigations and referred the entire file to State Prosecutir Judge Jamal Hajjar,

The Israeli army targeted overnight into Monday several towns and villages in south Lebanon as Hezbollah claimed attacks against soldiers in the south and targets in north Israel.

A strike on a Lebanese army checkpoint in al-Amirieh between Tyre and Naqoura, killed a soldier and wounded at least four others. Strikes also targeted Shaqra, Dweir, Zrarieh, Bazourieh, Qaaqaiyet al-Jesser, Yater, Qalaway, Ainata, Harees, Bint jbeil, Hanaway, Baraashit, and a public school in Samaiyeh, while artillery shelled al-Mansouri, Maroun al-Ras, and Yaroun.

Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over Beirut and several areas on Saturday night, state media reported, as residents heard loud booms reverberate across the city and in the mountains.

Three Lebanese journalists were killed on Saturday by an Israeli strike that targeted their vehicle in southern Lebanon, a military source told AFP.

An Israeli strike targeted a car near Jezzine and a leaflet box hit a balcony in Jnah on Saturday after an overnight strike on Dahiyeh and air raids across south Lebanon.

Reports said the strike on the car killed four people.

At the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in France, the UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper announced an additional £2 million in UK humanitarian funding to Lebanon bringing the British total contribution to £9.5 million since the beginning of the conflict.

A strike hit Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday afternoon without warning from the Israeli military, Lebanese state media said, as TV footage showed smoke rising from the area.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil visited Friday President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Speaker Nabih Berri and Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, in a series of meetings aimed at averting civil strife.

Bassil urged all Lebanese to maintain a patriotic stance and spare their children the bitterness of internal conflict. "One hundred days of foreign war are better than a single day of civil war — though we want neither," he said, as he accused certain domestic actors of seeking an internal conflict as a means to end the Israeli aggression, a clear reference to the FPM’s long-standing rivals, the Lebanese Forces.