Prime Minister Saad Hariri held talks on Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemning the recent Israeli aggression against Lebanon, the Premier’s press office said.

Hariri told Lavrov that the Israeli attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut is a dangerous act, an attack against the Lebanese sovereignty and a violation of UN resolution 1701, which established calm and stability over the past years.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri held talks with Salim Sfeir, the chairman of the Association of Banks in Lebanon who assured the Premier on the stability of Lebanon’s monetary and economic system after the latest credit rating downgrade, VDL (100.5) radio station said on Tuesday.

An Israeli reconnaissance airplane hovered at a low altitude over the Baalbek area and later over the southern city of Marjayoun, said the state-run National News Agency on Tuesday.

Israeli forces fired several flares Monday evening over the occupied Shebaa Farms, media reports said.

The National News Agency said the flares were fired over Tallet Seddaneh, Birkat al-Naqqar and al-Bayader in the outskirts of the town of Shebaa as several blasts were heard inside the occupied farms.

The United Nations called Monday for "maximum restraint" by all parties after a reported drone attack in a Hizbullah stronghold south of Beirut that was blamed on Israel.

Lebanon’s Higher Defense Council will convene Tuesday to discuss the latest Israeli attacks, the Presidency said.

“President Michel Aoun consulted with Prime Minister Saad Hariri and it was decided to convene the Higher Defense Council in an emergency meeting at the Beiteddine Palace on Tuesday afternoon,” the Presidency said in a statement issued Monday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri met Monday afternoon at the Grand Serail with the ambassadors and deputy heads of mission of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: U.S. Ambassador Elizabeth Richard, Russian Ambassador Alexander Zasypkin, Chinese Ambassador Wang Kejian, British Chargé d'Affaires Benjamin Wastnage and French Chargé d'Affaires Salina Grenet-Catalano.

He discussed with them the latest developments and the situation in Lebanon and the region, his office said.

Higher Relief Council chief Maj. Gen. Mohammed Kheir on Monday inspected the Dahiyeh buildings damaged by the Israeli drone explosion.

“This is a different and veiled type of terrorism that the people of Dahiyeh have come under and the Lebanese citizen is always resilient,” Kheir said after his tour.

President Michel Aoun on Monday described the weekend Israeli attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern border region of Qusaya as a “declaration of war.”

“The attacks on Dahiyeh and the Qusaya region violate (U.N. Security Council) Resolution 1701, and its stipulations that bind Lebanon should also be binding for Israel,” Aoun told U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis during a meeting in Beiteddine.

Kuwait on Monday condemned Sunday’s Israeli aggression against Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Monday.