Hezbollah targeted Monday the Israeli Biranit post with four Volcano missiles (Burkan) and Israel retaliated by shelling several border towns including al-Labbouneh, al-Naqoura, Ain al-Zarqaa, Yaroun, Rmeish, Aita al-Shaab, Mays al-Jabal, Houla and Tayr Harfa.

later on Monday, Hezbollah targeted other Israeli posts, including the Zebdine barracks in the occupied Shebaa Farms, Ramim, the Bar'am kibbutz, Hadb al-Bustan, Malkia and Hadb Yaroun.

Calm contacts are taking place away from the spotlight regarding the issue of the army chief post, governmental sources said.

“The issue of avoiding vacuum in the army command will be left to the last 15 minutes,” an informed political source told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Monday.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has told reporters that Hezbollah has fired over 1,000 munitions at Israel since October 7.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday threw his support behind Army Commander General Joseph Aoun, saying that the army chief should not be changed until the election of a new president.

Qatar intends to activate the contacts over Lebanon’s presidential election file, media reports have said.

An informed political source told Lebanon’s ad-Diyar newspaper, in remarks published Sunday, that the activation of the contacts will come after Doha succeeds in its mediation between Hamas and Israel, which will see the release of a batch of Israeli hostages in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners and the supply of Gaza with fuel and aid.

The issue of the looming vacuum in the army chief post is still the subject of intensive contacts and efforts but no progress has been made in this regard, which has forced the postponement of a Cabinet session that was supposed to be held Monday, a media report said on Sunday.

“The concentrated attempts to find a solution or exit for this crisis have not succeeded until the moment,” a ministerial source told ad-Diyar newspaper, stressing that Cabinet will not convene on Monday as had been previously reported.

Six missiles were fired Sunday from south Lebanon at Israel's northern Galilee region as an airstrike targeted Lebanon’s Aita al-Shaab and artillery shells hit at least 12 Lebanese southern border towns.

Israel’s Channel 12 said the missiles fell in an open area in the Shlomi settlement and that no casualties were reported.

In a ramshackle Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Hayat Shehadeh wrings her hands as she watches the Israel-Hamas war. Her daughter is in Gaza, and she has not spoken to her for a week.

While war continues in Gaza, "all resistance forces (including Hezbollah)... will continue to put pressure on Israel," senior Hezbollah official Sayyed Hashem Safieddine has said during a speech.

"There is no question today of talking about a ceasefire on one front and not the other," he added.

It is very likely that a Cabinet session will be held on Monday with the aim of extending the term of Army chief General Joseph Aoun and the probable appointment of a new chief of staff, informed sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Saturday.

The Free Patriotic Movement has meanwhile “rejected participation in Monday’s session, stressing that the appointment of a new army chief, chief of staff and military council should take place through roaming decrees signed by all ministers, not through a Cabinet session, expressing concerns that (General Joseph Aoun’s) retirement could be postponed regardless of the defense minister’s approval,” the al-Liwaa daily reported.