President Joseph Aoun announced Monday that “domestic and external contacts are ongoing to consolidate security and stability in the South through negotiations via the Mechanism committee, which will hold a meeting on Friday.”

“The choice of negotiations is the alternative to a war that will not yield any result, but will rather inflict further harm and ruin to Lebanon and the Lebanese without any exception,” Aoun said, in a meeting with a delegation from the Tashnag Party.

The U.S. administration is currently preventing Israel from escalating its strikes in Lebanon, pressing it to settle for limited attacks, Israel’s Channel 12 said.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has told President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam that he is against postponing the parliamentary elections from spring to summer, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper reported Monday.

The daily said Aoun and Salam proposed to delay the elections to the summer holiday when expats are in Lebanon for them to be able to participate in the vote.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack will arrive Monday in Israel for talks with top officials on preventing escalation in Syria and Lebanon, media reports said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested the cancellation of a trial session scheduled for Monday to allow him to meet with the U.S. official, the reports added.

Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal and a delegation of Arab and foreign ambassadors and military attachés arrived Monday at the Tyre barracks at the start of a tour organized by the Lebanese Army to brief them on the implementation of the disarmament plan in the South Litani sector and Israel’s attacks.

They were received by the commander of the South Litani sector, Brigadier General Nicolas Tabet.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee criticized "Hezbollah's supporters" who attacked Lebanese President Joseph Aoun after the latter condemned a mass shooting at a Jewish holiday event that killed at least 11 people in Sydney.

Adraee said those who "live on the rhetoric of death see a threat in every humanitarian stance."

Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir has conducted a situation assessment at Israel's Northern Command.

“In a short period, we eliminated the Hezbollah commander (Haitham Tabatabai) and the head of Hamas' manufacturing division. We will not allow the enemy to expand and will respond to any violation of the agreement. Our policy is clear, in all arenas, and here in Lebanon -- we will continue to act and thwart threats before they develop,” Zamir told troops and officers.

Ali Akbar Velayati, the international affairs advisor to Iran's supreme leader, met with Hezbollah’s representative in Iran Abdallah Safieddine on Sunday and stressed that Tehran will continue to firmly support Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is “one of the most important pillars of the resistance front and is playing a key role in confronting Zionism,” Velayati said.

A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader said Sunday that the country would "resolutely support" Hezbollah, its ally in Lebanon, in the group's efforts to confront Tehran's regional foe Israel.

The remarks by Ali Akbar Velayati came as Lebanon faces pressure from the United States and Israel to disarm Hezbollah, which engaged in more than a year of hostilities with Israel following the outbreak of the Gaza war.

The Israeli military said it killed three Hezbollah members in strikes Sunday on southern Lebanon, where it has carried out repeated attacks despite an ongoing ceasefire with the Iran-backed group.

The Lebanese health ministry said three people were killed in strikes in the Yater, Safad Al-Battikh and Jwaya areas of the south.