Friday’s meeting between President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri lasted 45 minutes and was aimed at “coordinating Lebanese stances prior to U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s visit” to Lebanon, which will take place on Tuesday, MTV said.

The spiritual leader of the Druze community in Lebanon, Sheikh Sami Abi al-Muna, said at a gathering of Druze officials in Beirut that sectarian clashes in Syria “give an excuse for Israeli intervention and for blowing up the situation in the region.”

“We do not accept to request protection from Israel, which we believe is harmful to our history and identity,” he said.

Druze leader in Lebanon Walid Jumblat urged the Druze community to use reason and wisdom before reacting and throwing accusations after clashes in Syria's Sweida province spread to Lebanon.

After an extraordinary meeting of the Druze Council, Jumblat proposed ceasefire and dialogue, adding that Jabal al-Arab in Sweida is an integral part of Syria and condemning Israeli attacks on Syria and Lebanon.

The Lebanese Army said Friday that it will not allow “any security breach or harm against civil peace,” urging the Lebanese not to “carry out any act that can have uncalculated repercussions on security” amid the current local and regional developments.

President Joseph Aoun met Friday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to put the final touches on Lebanon's response to a U.S. request to disarm Hezbollah, Saudi news interactive channel al-Hadath said.

Aoun who took office in the aftermath of more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah had vowed a state monopoly on bearing arms, while demanding Israel comply with a November ceasefire.

“I beg you, come help me! Dad and mom are dying! Dad and mom are dying! Dad and mom are dying! Come help me quickly!” says a toddler girl in an audio recording that went viral after a deadly Israeli strike overnight on a house in the southern town of Qabrikha.

Former public works and transport minister Ghazi Zoaiter on Friday failed to appear before Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar, the National News Agency said.

U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack is currently holding consultations in New York and will visit Lebanon next week, local al-Joumhouria newspaper said Friday.

According to the daily, Israel has told Barrack that it expects Hezbollah to hand over its ballistic and hypersonic missiles before engaging in further discussions.

Israeli forces made an incursion at dawn Friday into the center of the southern border town of Mays al-Jabal, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Tehran is reportedly making new efforts to arm its allies including Hezbollah across the Middle East.

Senior fellow at the Washington Institute for near east policy Michael Knights said that "Iran is rebuilding its presence in the Levant by sending missiles to Hezbollah and weapons from Iraq to Syria".