President Michel Aoun tweeted Wednesday that the Presidency "should not be targeted," adding that he regrets the "ignorance" of many Lebanese about the constitution.

"A large number of Lebanese officials and medias, who are ignorant of the constitution, are making harmful statements against the president," Aoun said.

Head of Hizbullah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammed Raad warned Tuesday that some consider “the person who cooperated with the Israeli invasion in 1982” to be “the qualified and eligible candidate for the presidential post,” in apparent jab at Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea.

“They want to return us to the Israeli era after we got rid of it. Their arrogance has reached this extent!” Raad added.

President Michel Aoun met Tuesday a delegation from the U.S. Treasury, in Baabda.

"Lebanon will continue to combat corruption, money laundering and terror financing operations," Aoun told the delegation.

Hizbullah on Tuesday strongly denied a media report claiming that Israel had recently destroyed a drone depot belonging to the group.

“Hizbullah strongly denies the reports about a Zionist force entering into one of the resistance’s drone depots and destroying it,” the group said in a statement, describing the reports as totally baseless.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday said those who “trust and count on the United States” should draw a “lesson” from the Ukraine conflict.

“Washington has done everything to push for the current scenario,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech commemorating slain Hizbullah leader Abbas al-Moussawi.

UNIFIL held a ceremony at its headquarters in Naqoura on Monday to officially transfer authority from outgoing Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col of Italy to Major General Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz of Spain.

France and Saudi Arabia on Monday agreed to fund humanitarian projects aimed at assisting the Lebanese people, during a Paris meeting between their two foreign ministers, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Prince Faisal bin Farhan.

“As per the directions of the two countries’ leaderships, the discussions session witnessed follow-up on the bilateral coordination between the kingdom and France over the developments in Lebanon and the difficult situations that the Lebanese people are going through,” a statement said.

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Monday interrogated Bank of Beirut chairman Salim Sfeir and Bank Audi chairman Samir Hanna over a complaint filed by an activist group.

Media reports said Aoun would also interrogate Khalil al-Bitar, who is a member of the board of directors of Bank Audi.

The head of Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, has announced that Israel will not be able to explore for offshore gas if Lebanon is not also doing the same in its territorial waters.

“The American mediator came to Lebanon over the past days to play the role of the fox in the splitting of the cheese between the rivals,” Raad said during a memorial service in the southern town of Kfar Fila.

The military court has released two detainees who had been suspected of spying for Israel, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi revealed on Monday.

Last month, the Lebanese security forces had busted more than 17 suspected Israeli spy networks, in one of the largest nationwide crackdowns in recent years.