Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday adjourned a legislative session due to lack of quorum, after the Lebanese Forces, the Kataeb Party and their allies boycotted in rejection of Berri’s refusal to put on the agenda a bill allowing expats to vote for all 128 seas in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The LF had said that participation in the session it would reflect “submission to Speaker Nabih Berri’s hegemony over parliament.”

Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Mahmoud Rashad met Tuesday in Lebanon with President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri.

The Presidency said Aoun and Egypt’s intelligence head discussed “how to leverage the atmosphere of the Gaza deal and the Sharm el-Sheikh summit to expand it to include Lebanon.”

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus on Tuesday held meetings with President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri and was scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.

A Presidency statement said Aoun emphasized the need to activate the work of the Mechanism ceasefire monitoring committee, especially in terms of “halting the continuous Israeli attacks on Lebanon and implementing Resolution 1701 in the South to enable the Lebanese Army to complete its deployment up to the southern international border.”

The Syrian interior ministry said Tuesday it seized about 11 million captagon pills in the southern countryside of Homs.

The pills were smuggled in a car coming from Lebanon, Syria's national news agency said.

Hezbollah smuggled hundreds of rockets from Syria to Lebanon over the past months and the Israeli army only managed to thwart some of the shipments, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation said.

Israel has informed Washington of the details of the smuggling operations and its need to “maintain attacks on Lebanon,” the report added.

The United Nations and France have condemned Israeli fire near U.N. peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon, after an incident during which peacekeepers neutralized an Israeli reconnaissance drone.

"We are very concerned about the incident that occurred on Sunday in which an Israeli drone dropped a grenade in the vicinity of a UNIFIL patrol, and subsequently an Israeli tank fired a shot at the peacekeepers in Kfar Kila in the UNIFIL area of operations," said U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric, referring to the incident in southern Lebanon.

The European Union condemned Tuesday an Israeli attack that targeted Sunday a UNIFIL detachment, "the latest in a series of similar incidents in recent weeks."

In a statement, the EU recalled that the safety and security of U.N. personnel and premises must be ensured in accordance with international law and U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701.

Two brothers were killed Monday in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a sawmill on the outskirts of the souhtern town of al-Bayyad in the Tyre district, the National News Agency said.

Israeli strikes over Lebanon had recently intensified amid scrambles to hold a tense ceasefire that ended Israel's war on Lebanon last November, and mounting pressure on the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday blasted Speaker Nabih Berri again over the issue of the latter’s refusal to put a bill allowing expats to vote on the agenda of Tuesday’s legislative session.

“What Speaker Berri is doing represents a blatant violation of the constitution’s rules and (parliament’s) bylaws and an attack on the rights of the parliamentary majority, which is no longer acceptable,” Geagea said.

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus on Monday arrived in Lebanon for talks with Lebanese leaders and participation in a meeting for the Mechanism ceasefire monitoring committee.

Ortagus had visited Israel on Saturday and Sunday.