The Lebanese Army headed Thursday to Beirut's southern suburbs to inspect a building at the request of the five-member committee supervising the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, media reports said.

On Wednesday, Army forces bulldozed the site of a building they had searched Tuesday at the request of the committee in the densely populated Sainte-Therese street in Hadath in Beirut's southern suburbs. The building had been targeted by an Israeli strike during the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.

UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti denied Thursday in an interview with Al-Jadeed an alleged agreement between the U.S. and Israel to end the peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, calling such reports "rumors."

Tenenti stressed that UNIFIL's commitment to support the Lebanese Army, urging the Israeli military to withdraw from Lebanese territory.

A dispute between Speaker Nabih Berri and Justice Minister Adel Nassar of the Kataeb Party is still delaying the new judicial appointments, sources told Al-Jadeed TV overnight.

French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian met Wednesday with Hezbollah lawmaker Mohammad Raad in Haret Hreik.

Le Drian also met on Tuesday and Wednesday with President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil, Kataeb leader Sami Gemayel, and former PSP leader Walid Jumblat.

One person was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike on a village in southern Lebanon, the health ministry and Israel's military said, the latest deadly attack since a November ceasefire.

"The raid carried out by an enemy Israeli drone on the town of Beit Lif, in the Bint Jbeil district, resulted in one martyr and three people injured," read a statement from the ministry.

A former Cabinet minister has been arrested and charged after an investigation into alleged financial crimes, judicial and security officials told The Associated Press.

Former Economy Minister Amin Salam was detained after a three-hour interrogation about illegal use of ministry funds and use of suspicious contracts. The three judicial officials and one security official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

Diplomatic circles have said that the work of UNIFIL may expand to include the area north of the Litani River instead of remaning confined to the area south of the Litani River, the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Wednesday.

French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian met Wednesday with Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil and Kataeb leader Sami Gemayel.

Gemayel urged after the meeting a road map for the disarmament of Hezbollah, adding that a state cannot be built unless illegal weapons are handed over - a request Hezbollah said will not do as long as Israeli troops remain in southern Lebanon and the Israeli air force regularly violates Lebanese air space.

Army forces returned Wednesday with a bulldozer to a building they searched Tuesday at the request of the five-member committee supervising the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.

The building in the densely populated Sainte-Therese street in Hadath in Beirut's southern suburbs had been targeted by an Israeli strike during the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.

The post-war reconstruction process in Lebanon will begin at the end of this year, Mohammad Qabbani, the head of the state-run Council for Development and Reconstruction, said.