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An Israeli drone strike on a car killed one person in the Tyre district town of Reshknanay on Tuesday, reportedly a senior Hezbollah Radwan Force commander, the latest such raid amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike overnight on the al-Shaara outskirts, east of the Lebanese town of Janta on the Lebanese-Syrian border, media reports said.

President Joseph Aoun took part Tuesday in Cairo in the opening session of an extraordinary Arab summit on the Palestinian cause.
Aoun also held meetings on the summit's sidelines with U.N. chief Antonio Guterres, Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit, Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid and Rashad al-Alimi, the chairman of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council.

President Joseph Aoun and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman have stressed “the importance of the full implementation of the Taif Agreement and the relevant U.N. resolutions,” in a joint statement issued after Aoun’s first visit to the kingdom in his capacity as president.

Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar has stressed that the ministry is committed to organizing the May municipal and mayoral elections on time.

MP Walid al-Baarini, who represents the impoverished region of Akkar in parliament, has defended his recent call for “federalism,” saying his proposal “carries unification rather than partitioning as some are claiming for their own reasons.”
“Perhaps there is a necessity now for each side to win its right from the central state, regardless of numbers, strength and affiliations,” Baarini said in an interview with the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper.

Public Works and Transportation Minister Fayez Rasamny has said that Lebanese authorities have “taken all the necessary measures at Beirut’s international airport.”

An Israeli drone was hovering Monday over the Tyre district towns of al-Mansouri and Byout al-Siyyad, blaring “provocative statements,” the National News Agency said, in reference to anti-Hezbollah propaganda.

Former PSP leader Walid Jumblat said Sunday that he will soon visit Syria to meet its interim leader as tensions simmer between members of the minority Druze group, the war-torn country's interim government, and Israel.
"The free Syrians must be cautious of the plots of Israel," veteran Druze leader Walid Jumblat said at a news conference Sunday, accusing Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of creating sectarian division and chaos in the country. "In Syria there is a plot for sabotage. There is a plot for sabotage in the region and for the Arabs' national security."

President Joseph Aoun arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday for his first trip abroad since taking office earlier this year, the presidency and Saudi media said.
Aoun, a former army chief thought to be backed by Riyadh and Washington, was elected on January 9, ending a more than two-year power vacuum amid a crippling political and economic crisis.
