A wave of Israeli airstrikes on Monday targeted several mountainous areas in the Baalbek-Hermel region, killing five people and wounding five others, the Health Ministry said.

A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, confirmed four of the five killed were group members.

Speaker Nabih Berri met with President Joseph Aoun on Monday at the Baabda Palace.

“With the blessings of the Virgin Mary, everything is good,” Berri told reporters as he left the palace.

The U.S.-led ceasefire monitoring committee convened Sunday in Ras al-Naqoura in the presence of U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus and U.S. Central Command chief Admiral Brad Cooper.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said “things are positive,” after Cabinet on Friday welcomed the Lebanese Army’s plan for the disarmament of Hezbollah and all armed groups in the country.

The plan devised by the Lebanese Army for monopolizing weapons in the country consists of four stages, media reports said on Saturday, after Cabinet said it “welcomes” the plan and asked the army to submit monthly reports on implementation.

Cabinet on Friday welcomed the Lebanese Army's weapons monopolization plan and decided to keep its details confidential while asking the army to submit monthly reports on its implementation, Information Minister Paul Morcos said after a key session that witnessed a walkout by all five Shiite ministers.

“The army will begin implementing the plan according to its available and limited capabilities,” Morcos added.

Lebanon’s leaders are running out of time to disarm Hezbollah before they risk losing U.S. and Gulf Arab financial support, and even a renewed Israeli military campaign, the New York Times quoted U.S. officials as saying, ahead of a key cabinet meeting in Beirut on Friday.

The warning comes at what U.S. officials call a critical moment in Lebanon’s history, as the country’s cabinet considers a plan to force Hezbollah to surrender its weapons.

At least two people were killed and four others wounded in Israeli attacks on separate areas of south Lebanon Wednesday .

An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in the southern town of Yater, killing one person, the Health Ministry said.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has awarded the Israel Defense Prize to Israel’s foreign intelligence agency Mossad for its role in the operation that killed former Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut’s southern suburbs last year.

At the ceremony at Herzog’s residence in Jerusalem, a Mossad recruitment and operations officer, identified only as “G”, spoke on behalf of the agency and disclosed new details of the operation.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that he is “determined to withdraw all Palestinian arms from Lebanon,” after his Fatah Movement handed over weapons from several Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut’s southern suburbs and south Lebanon.

“The talk about disarming the camps in Lebanon started 15 years ago … The disarmament of Palestinian camps is a prelude to protecting Lebanon,” Abbas said in an interview with Al-Arabiya television.