The United Nations welcomed the formation of a new government in Lebanon on Saturday, which ended more than two years under a caretaker cabinet.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Saturday welcomed the formation of a new government in Lebanon, despite the latest remarks by Deputy U.S. Envoy for Middle East Morgan Ortagus, who warned against Hezbollah’s participation in the new cabinet.

Lebanon's prime minister named a new government on Saturday, the presidency announced, after an agreement was reached to appoint Fadi Makki as the so-called "fifth Shiite minister." Makki will serve as State Minister for Administrative Development.

Premier Nawaf Salam vowed to "restore confidence between citizens and the state, between Lebanon and its Arab surroundings, and between Lebanon and the international community" and to implement reforms needed to bring the country out of an extended economic crisis.

Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat quoted Friday former Lebanese Prime Minister Saeb Salam, urging Lebanese leaders to form an inclusive government as progress stalled following a meeting Thursday between the Lebanese President, PM-designate, and Parliament speaker.

Jumblat said, in remarks published Friday in al-Joumhouria, that it is time to remember Salam's words "There are no winners and no losers" in order to succeed in managing Lebanon's complicated situation and national junctures, including the new government formation.

A number of Hezbollah supporters started gathering Friday outside Beirut’s airport for a sit-in protesting the anti-Hezbollah remarks that U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus voiced from Baabda after her meeting with President Joseph Aoun.

“The Lebanese Army has reinforced its deployment outside the airport,” the National News Agency said.

President Joseph Aoun on Friday told the visiting Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Morgan Ortagus that “permanent stability in the South hinges on completing Israel’s withdrawal from the territory that it occupied during the last war, and the implementation of Resolution 1701 with all its terms, including the requirements of the Nov. 27 agreement.”

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Friday said the FPM cannot be in a new government that contains “privileged and non-privileged members.”

A Hezbollah member and his two daughters were killed Friday in an explosion of a house in the southern border town of Tayr Harfa, media reports said.

The man, called Abbas Haidar, is a Hezbollah official, LBCI said, adding that his two daughters who were with him were also killed and other members of his family were injured.

MP Ghayath Yazbek of the Lebanese Forces on Thursday said that “Speaker Nabih Berri has demonstrated an advanced and alarming image about the (Shiite) Duo’s future performance in Cabinet.”

The toppling of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, who had strong ties to Iran and Hezbollah, has crippled Hezbollah's ability to bounce back by cutting off a vital weapons-smuggling route through Syria.

Syria's new president and Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister met last month in Damascus and discussed the relations between the two countries. In the meeting, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa vowed that Syria will no longer allow the smuggling of weapons and money to Hezbollah, a local media report said.