Brig. Gen. Iraj Masjedi, the assistant commander of Iran’s Quds Force for coordination affairs, announced Monday that “the Hezbollah disarmament plan in Lebanon is an American-Zionist plan that will never be implemented.”

Recent and similar statements by the same official and by other Iranian officials had prompted Lebanese authorities to strongly condemn “interference” in Lebanon’s domestic affairs.

Hezbollah and Amal called off Monday a rally they had called for in protest at the government's decision to disarm Hezbollah by the year end.

The workers' departments of Hezbollah and Amal had called for a rally Wednesday in Riad al-Solh.

An Israeli drone strike that targeted a car on the Tebnine road in south Lebanon killed one person, the health ministry said Monday.

Another drone strike had earlier targeted a car in Sarbine, causing no casualties. Media reports said the same car was later targeted in Tebnine as the first strike failed to kill the driver.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said Israel was ready to back Lebanon's efforts to disarm Hezbollah and offered "a phased" pullout of its troops if Lebanon followed through with plans to seize the group's weapons.

"Israel stands ready to support Lebanon in its efforts to disarm Hezbollah and to work together towards a more secure and stable future for both nations," said Netanyahu, according to a statement released by his office.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack arrived in Israel and met on Sunday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the Trump administration’s request that Israel restrain its strikes in Lebanon, as well as about the negotiations with Syria, three Israeli and U.S. sources told U.S. news portal Axios.

President Joseph Aoun has said that Lebanon is still awaiting “the final Israeli response” to the Lebanese paper that was carried to Israel by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil said during an FPM dinner in the al-Zahrani region that “every martyr who fell” in the South “did not only fall in defense of the South, but rather entire Lebanon.”

President Joseph Aoun reassured Friday that the situation on the Lebanese-Syrian border is under control and that the Lebanese Army maintains “full readiness” there.

The army is “performing its missions competently and keenly, in order to spread calm and serenity among the people,” Aoun added, in a meeting with ex-MP Emile Rahme.

President Joseph Aoun’s adviser Brig. Gen. Andre Rahal met Friday in Beirut’s southern suburbs with MP Mohammad Raad, the head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea made a solidarity visit to Prime Minister Nawaf Salam at the Grand Serail on Friday, in the wake of the campaign launched against the premier over the government’s latest decisions on the disarmament of all armed groups in the country.