Speaker Nabih Berri said Monday that, “as usual,” he held an “excellent” meeting with President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Palace.

“We discussed the current affairs and he briefed me on the outcome of the meetings that he held in New York and I put him in the picture of what happened in Beirut days ago,” Berri added, referring to the controversy over Hezbollah’s decision to defy authorities and project the images of its slain chiefs onto the iconic Raouche Rock.

President Joseph Aoun said Monday that the army is a red line after some local media outlets accused the army and the security forces of allowing Hezbollah supporters to project images of the group’s former longtime leader on the iconic Raouche rock despite a circular by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam that objected to the planned light show.

Salam issued a circular before the event pointing to "the recent recurrence of the exploitation of national monuments for propaganda purposes and to hold activities in which partisan and political slogans are raised."

One person was killed Monday in an Israeli drone strike that targeted an excavator in West Bekaa's Suhmor in east Lebanon.

Earlier on Monday, another Israeli drone strike targeted the southern border town of Aitaroun.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Monday that Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is the prime minister of all Lebanon, and that the government includes everyone, after change MP Firas Hamdan said that Hezbollah and Amal ministers must resign if they don't like Salam.

Hamdan spoke during a legislative session that was adjourned after the Lebanese Forces and Kataeb MPs walked out of parliament, stripping the session of its quorum over a clash on the electoral law and the rights of expats to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar said Monday that his ministry is committed to holding the May 2026 parliamentary elections based on the current law, noting that the law stipulates Nov. 20 as a final deadline for expat registration.

“I remind of the period that preceded the municipal and mayoral elections, when there were doubts about their organization, but we held them on time,” Hajjar said in parliament.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri threatened Monday to adjourn a legislative session after MP Ali Hassan Khalil of Berri’s bloc accused the Lebanese Forces of not wanting parliamentary elections and a verbal clash ensued.

Khalil voiced his remarks after MP Georges Adwan of the LF said his party would suspend its participation in the sessions of the subcommittee discussing the electoral law, prompting Khalil to say that “it’s clear that the brothers want to torpedo the elections.”

An Israeli drone targeted Monday the southern border town of Aitaroun, a day after a series of strikes that the Israeli military said targeted weapons depots belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

"A short while ago, the IDF (Israeli military) struck Hezbollah weapon storage facilities in southern Lebanon. These weapon depots were used by the terrorist organization to advance and carry out terror attacks against the State of Israel," the Israeli military said in a statement Sunday.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has met with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council chief Ali Larijani, in the presence of Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani, Hezbollah said on Sunday.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said the group would not allow itself to be disarmed on Saturday as he addressed supporters marking one year since the killing by Israel of his predecessor Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

The charismatic leader was killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on September 27, 2024.

A top Iranian security official called on regional countries Saturday to put their differences aside and cooperate closely as they face what he called "Israel's conspiracies."

Ali Larijani, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, spoke in Beirut where he arrived earlier Saturday to attend the anniversary of Israel's assassination of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon.