UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti assured that immediate contacts were made to control the situation on the south border after counter shelling between Lebanon and Israel late on Monday.

Recent remarks made by Lebanon’s caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe about Gulf countries are likely to trigger a "diplomatic crisis” between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, media reports said on Tuesday.

The Israeli army launched artillery towards Lebanon on Monday in response to rocket fire from the Lebanese side that failed to hit Israel.

"Six failed launch attempts were identified from Lebanon that did not cross into Israeli territory," the Israeli army said in a statement.

Italian Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Marina Sereni, said that Italy is willing to provide assistance for Lebanon whenever a new government is formed, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, who is currently on a trip outside Lebanon, could extend his stay abroad for another week for a series of unannounced meetings to tackle the Lebanese file, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

The Lebanese problematic situation would be one of the important files discussed by the French and Egyptian presidents in Paris on Monday, media reports said.

A senior French source told al-Joumhouria daily that French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss the Lebanese file with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah el-Sisi during the latter’s visit to France to participate in the Paris conference on Sudan.

In a camp for Syrian refugees in east Lebanon, Mohammad and his three sisters fear they will be out of school for a third consecutive year because remote learning is out of reach.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday called on Lebanese authorities to “control the Lebanese-Israeli border” and “prevent the use of Lebanese territory as a launchpad for rockets,” after three rockets were fired recently from Lebanon at the sea off Israel amid a major Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Beware that some become implicated in the events, directly or through proxies, which would subject Lebanon to new wars,” al-Rahi warned in his Sunday Mass sermon.

A senior Hamas official has said that the Palestinian movement is not encouraging anyone to fire rockets at Israel from south Lebanon.

“The resistance in Gaza has rockets that can reach entire Palestine and we don’t need the firing of rockets from south Lebanon,” the official, Ali Barakeh, said in a TV interview.

Israeli maintenance crews were on Sunday carrying out repair works on Lebanon’s border after days of skirmishes with Lebanese and Palestinian protesters.

Lebanon’s National News Agency said the Israeli crews were fixing the barbed wire and the security cameras that were smashed by protesters opposite the Lebanese town of Kfarkila.