Contacts are underway at the highest levels with the parties concerned with the ceasefire agreement to prevent a deterioration of the situation, after rockets were fired at Israel from south Lebanon, Lebanese presidency sources told Saudi Arabia’s Asharq news outlet.

The mayor of the northern Israeli settlement of Metula, David Azoulai, accused the government and the Israeli army's Northern Command of trying to "normalize" a situation of occasional rocket fire from Lebanon, after three rockets were fired from south Lebanon on Saturday morning.

“We won’t allow them to normalize this. I call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and of course IDF Northern Command head Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin to act offensively and make it so that not one bullet is fired ever again at northern communities,” he told the Ynet news site.

Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir held a situational assessment Saturday over the rocket fire from Lebanon that targeted the northern settlement of Metula in the morning, the Israeli army said.

The army added that it holds the Lebanese government responsible for the ceasefire violation and that it will respond to the attack "severely."

Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avichai Stern on Saturday asked the Israeli military’s Northern Command chief if he still believes it is safe for residents to return to the north after three rockets were fired from Lebanon at Metula earlier in the morning.

“I have just one question for the head of the IDF’s Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, who said there is nothing preventing a return to the north — do you still think that?” Stern said in a statement cited by Israeli media outlets.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called Defense Minister Michel Menassa on Saturday, after three rockets were fired at Israel from south Lebanon, stressing “the need to take all the necessary security and military measures to assert that the state alone takes the decisions of war and peace.”

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned the military would hit back after intercepting three rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel on Saturday.

"We cannot allow fire from Lebanon on Galilee communities," Katz said in a statement. "The Lebanese government is responsible for attacks from its territory. I have ordered the military to respond accordingly."

Hezbollah political bureau member Mahmoud Qmati has warned that “Washington wants Lebanon to be a U.S. colony” and that “U.S. pressures might lead the country to chaos and civil war.”

An Israeli official told Al-Arabiya television on Friday that Israel “will work on preventing the re-arming of Hezbollah and will not settle for a monitor role.”

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil whose party is now in opposition after being excluded from the Nawaf Salam government, said Friday that the FPM is "in the state and will never again be outside the state."

"No one can take us out," Bassil said. "We might be excluded from the upcoming appointments but we have our large parliamentary bloc and our people in the administration, the military and security services, the judiciary, and various state departments."

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji, who was named by the Lebanese Forces, has again blamed Hezbollah for more than a year of clashes with Israel, which he said caused destruction, human loss, and Israeli occupation.

"We must remember who brought about the Israeli ground invasion of south Lebanon and who caused the destruction and the human losses," Rajji said in an interview with France24.