Higher Relief Council chief Maj. Gen. Mohammed Kheir on Monday inspected the Dahiyeh buildings damaged by the Israeli drone explosion.

“This is a different and veiled type of terrorism that the people of Dahiyeh have come under and the Lebanese citizen is always resilient,” Kheir said after his tour.

President Michel Aoun on Monday described the weekend Israeli attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern border region of Qusaya as a “declaration of war.”

“The attacks on Dahiyeh and the Qusaya region violate (U.N. Security Council) Resolution 1701, and its stipulations that bind Lebanon should also be binding for Israel,” Aoun told U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis during a meeting in Beiteddine.

Kuwait on Monday condemned Sunday’s Israeli aggression against Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Israel mobilized armored vehicles on Monday in the vicinity of al-Summaka post facing the southern town of Kfar Shouba, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said no enemy patrols were meanwhile seen along the military line extending from Wazzani heights to Shebaa and Kfar Shouba's off the Blue Line.

Israel carried out night raids on Monday at military positions of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) in the Eastern Mountain Range opposite the Bekaa town of Qusaya, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

NNA said that three explosions rocked central Bekaa shortly after midnight. The first blast was heard at 1:11 a.m. followed by two at 1:25 and 1:35.

Lebanese officials are expected to hold an “expanded economic” meeting at Baabda Palace to discuss ways to contain the repercussions after the credit ratings downgrade by international agencies, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri agreed to hold the meeting on September 2 at the Presidential Palace, said the newspaper.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Sunday received a phone call from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the talks tackled “the developments of the past hours in the Lebanese and regional arenas,” Hariri’s office said.

“Pompeo stressed the need to avoid any escalation and to work with all parties concerned to prevent any form of deterioration,” Hariri’s office added in a statement.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Sunday said he expresses his “full solidarity with our people” in Beirut’s southern suburbs after the Israeli drone explosion in the neighborhood of Mouawad.

Geagea also condemned “the repeated Israeli violations of our airspace and their sending of bomb-laden drones against targets in Lebanon.”

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday pledged that his group would retaliate against Israel from Lebanon should it kill any of its members in Syria, while warning that Hizbullah might shoot down any Israeli drone flying over Lebanon.

“If the Lebanese government wants pacification, it must tell the Americans to rein in Israel,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech marking the second anniversary of the ouster of militants and jihadists from the eastern border region.

Lebanese officials, politicians and religious leaders on Sunday condemned the Israeli drone bombing in a Hizbullah stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs, as some of them stressed that the Lebanese state should be in charge of responding to the development.

“We strongly deplore the fall of the two Israeli aircraft over the southern suburbs and the blatant aggression against Lebanese sovereignty and Resolution 1701,” Interior Minister Raya al-Hassan tweeted.