The U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon has reported that armed activities by Israeli forces north of the Blue Line -- the U.N.-drawn boundary -- violate a Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in the latest incident a peacekeeping patrol reported that 10 Israeli soldiers crossed north of the Blue Line on Monday near Alma al-Shaab.

The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon said that since a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah it had uncovered more than 225 weapons caches in the south and referred them to the army.

President Joseph Aoun may attend a meeting in Saudi Arabia with U.S. President Donald Trump, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Syrian interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, media reports said.

President Joseph Aoun on Monday stressed the need to activate Lebanese-Kuwaiti relations and develop them in all fields, during a meeting in Kuwait with the Gulf country’s emir Sheikh Mishaal al-Ahmed Al-Sabah.

Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar is on the verge of issuing his indictment in the case, after he reached a complete conclusion about the issue of the ammonium nitrate shipment -- where it came from, how it entered the port and how it exploded, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Monday.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said the municipal and mayoral elections were conducted “successfully” in north Lebanon on Sunday thanks to the “responsible management” of the Interior Ministry.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem will make a televised address at 8:30 pm Monday on the occasion on the ninth anniversary of the death of Hezbollah’s slain military chief Mustafa Badreddine, who was killed in the Syrian conflict.

Celebratory gunfire that erupted Sunday in the wake of north Lebanon’s municipal elections wounded several people, including LBCI reporter Nada Andraous.

President Joseph Aoun has stressed that “diplomacy is the way to restore Lebanon’s full sovereignty,” adding that “no one in Lebanon wants war and everyone understands the need to limit arms to the hands of the state.”

Voting got underway Sunday in north Lebanon’s municipal and mayoral elections, which witnessed a higher number of clashes compared to last Sunday’s polls in the Mount Lebanon governorate.