Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has accused Israel of trying to sabotage the ceasefire monitoring committee.

In remarks, published Monday in al-Joumhouria newspaper, Berri said Israel has tried to "blow up" the Mechanism "from day one", despite its "lackluster performance" and its "failure to fulfill its role."

State Minister at the Qatari Foreign Ministry Mohammad al-Khulaifi held talks Monday in Lebanon with President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Deputy PM Tarek Mitri, after which he announced a major aid package for Lebanon.

“We announce an economic project to support the electricity sector worth $360 million,” Khulaifi said in a press conference at the Grand Serail.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Monday that "Tripoli is not alone" as he inspected a building that collapsed Saturday in Tripoli's al-Qobbeh, killing at least two people, including a 66-year-old man and his daughter.

Emergency crews were still trying to rescue the last missing person who remains buried in rubble, after they managed to pull a mother and her 14-year-old son out alive during intense search operations.

Israeli strikes on south Lebanon on Sunday have killed two people, the health ministry reported, with Israel's military saying it struck Hezbollah targets.

Israel has kept up regular strikes in Lebanon despite a November 2024 truce that sought to end more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, usually saying it is targeting members of the Iran-backed group or its infrastructure.

An Israeli strike on south Lebanon killed one person on Sunday, the health ministry reported, as Israel's military said it struck Hezbollah targets.

Lebanon will need some sort of international force after the withdrawal of the United Nations's Unifil mission scheduled for 2027, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam  said during a visit to Paris.

The U.S. is pressing Lebanon to join a tripartite committee comprising Israel, Lebanon and the United States with the aim of holding meetings leading to agreements sponsored by Washington, al-Akhbar newspaper reported.

President Joseph Aoun held a meeting Friday in Baabda with Hashem Haidar, the head of the state-run Council for South Lebanon.

Haidar briefed the president on the measures taken by the council to assist the residents of the southern villages who have been affected by the Israeli attacks, the Presidency said in a statement.

Major contacts over Lebanon are being led by Washington and the Vatican and Israeli, U.S. and Iranian officials are meeting in Oman, Lebanon’s Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Friday.

“Shuttle meetings are taking place in the Sultanate of Oman revolving around rearranging the regional landscape, from Iran to Lebanon. Hezbollah is on the negotiating table, and both the Americans and Israelis are discussing this file; therefore, public statements do not reflect the reality of what is happening under the table,” the daily said.

President Joseph Aoun said he is incessantly urging the international community to pressure Israel to halt its attacks on Lebanon, and that Lebanon's priority is the return of the residents to their border villages and the release of detainees from Israeli prisons.

"Lebanon cannot be safe without the safety of its South," Aoun told Friday a delegation of the citizens displaced by war. "You are our people, and the state is obligated to assist you."