President Michel Aoun on Monday said that Lebanon rejects Israel’s latest threats while stressing that the country is keen on the resumption of talks over sea border demarcation.

“We reject the threats of the Israeli enemy, which is acting in violation of international laws and resolutions,” Aoun said, in a meeting in Baabda with reformist MPs Melhem Khalaf, Ibrahim Mneimneh, Rami Fanj, Mark Daou, Waddah al-Sadek, Yassine Yassine and Najat Aoun.

French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed his condolences to Tamara Tayah, the daughter of Tarek Tayah, one of the two Lebanese victims of a helicopter that crashed in northern Italy, days ago.

Tamara had met with Macron in Lebanon after she had lost her jeweler designer mother in the massive Beirut port explosion.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has warned against adopting Line 29 as it may result in "a political, media and perhaps military confrontation."

Bassil said that President Michel Aoun and Caretaker Prime minister Najib Miqati have agreed on an approach before negotiating with U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein who is due in Lebanon on Monday.

Israeli Army Chief Aviv Kochavi has warned that overwhelming force would be used in Lebanon in the next potential war with Hizbullah.

"The attack force will be unimaginable, like nothing you have witnessed before," he said, advising local Lebanese residents to leave "from the beginning of tensions and before the first shot is fired."

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi blamed Sunday "all officials, be them in power or in the opposition," for the "horrific collapse."

"The opposition forces could not manage to reach an agreement, while the rulers put Lebanon and the Lebanese at the mercy of foreign projects," al-Rahi said.

President Michel Aoun and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Saturday met in Baabda and discussed “the Lebanese stance over the issue of the demarcation of the southern border,” state-run National News Agency said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Friday stressed that no one should try to impose “conditions” on the country’s upcoming PM-designate.

“In principle, anyone informed on the Lebanese situation, including me, would dread this period’s difficulty and complications, that’s why I say that I’m not seeking (to be re-designated as PM),” Miqati said in response to a question, during his participation at a dialogue seminar organized by the Politics & Society Institute in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

General Security said Friday that the passport appointment platform will be re-activated as of Monday, June 13.

The platform had stopped working in April because of a shortage of travel documents, in part due to the government failing to pay a company tasked with printing new ones. Requests for passport renewals, ten times higher than in previous years, had piled pressure on passport centers and "affected available passport stocks."

Lebanon should block Israel from extracting gas from the disputed offshore field, Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday, warning a hydrocarbon exploration company hired by Israel against proceeding with its activities.

"The immediate objective should be to prevent the enemy from extracting oil and gas from the Karish gas field," part of which is claimed by Lebanon, Nasrallah said in a televised speech.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has called for naming a new premier who is “non-corrupt” and who has a “sovereign identity.”

In an interview with the privately-owned al-Markazia news agency, Geagea also said that the new premier “should pledge not to reserve any portfolio for any party or sect, most importantly the energy portfolio.”