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.

Hundreds of people brandishing Palestinian flags and the yellow colours of Hizbullah gathered in south Lebanon on Saturday for the funeral of a Lebanese protester killed by Israeli fire a day earlier. 

Mohamad Kassem Tahan, a member of the Iran-backed Hizbullah movement, had been protesting at the Lebanese border against the Jewish state's latest assault on the Gaza Strip when he was hit by Israeli shellfire. 

In a warning tone, Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraei “advised” Lebanon on Saturday to prevent “sabotagers” from approaching the border between the two countries, after a close border encounter Friday between protesters and Israeli soldiers.

Kuwaiti authorities said they were able to detain Hussein Zoaiter, whom they identified as “a powerful Lebanese drug trafficker involved in transporting drugs to Kuwait and the Gulf countries,” the Kuwait al-Rai newspaper reported on Saturday.

The Lebanese army on Saturday reportedly closed all roads leading to the Marjayoun plain opposite the Israeli settlement of Metulla in the occupied territories, media reports said.