Preparations for the upcoming all-party talks at the presidential palace are ongoing, a spokesman said.

“As for us, preparations at the palace are ongoing, and today most of the invited parties will meet to take their stances on the meeting,” said Rafik Chalala, the head of the Presidency’s press office.

An Israeli infantry force comprising 10 soldiers and several K9 dogs on Monday crossed the electronic border fence that faces the Lebanese Army’s checkpoint in the town of Adaisseh, Lebanon’s National News Agency said.

“It inspected and scoured the newly-carved road without breaching the Blue Line,” NNA added.

Lebanon recorded 51 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.

In its daily statement, the Ministry said 32 of the cases were confirmed among repatriated expats and 19 among residents.

A top aide to DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and a Lebanese businessman were each handed 20 years hard labor for corruption in a case that has tested the government's anti-graft credentials.

The Internal Security Forces on Sunday announced that its Intelligence Branch has arrested eleven suspects accused of taking part in the rioting that rocked downtown Beirut on June 11 and 12.

In a statement, the ISF said the suspects were identified through “the pictures and footage broadcast by the various media outlets, which clearly showed the aforementioned individuals carrying out acts of vandalization against public and private property.”

Israeli warplanes on Sunday violated Lebanon’s airspace at low and medium altitudes over the capital Beirut and several regions across the country.

According to the National News Agency, the jets flew at low altitude over Beirut and at medium altitude over Metn.

The all-party talks that President Michel Aoun will host in Baabda on Thursday must result in a “national document” and a “unified stance,” Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi urged on Sunday.

He described the president’s call for the meeting as “a national duty that his conscience dictated to him as a president of the nation who took an oath to protect the constitution and protect people’s unity and the public interest.”

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil’s bellicose speech on Saturday will make it “difficult” for ex-PMs Saad Hariri, Fouad Saniora, Najib Miqati and Tammam Salam to attend the broad national meeting in Baabda, highly informed sources said.

In remarks to Kuwait’s al-Rai newspaper published Sunday, the sources said such indications had surfaced over the past hours.

The United States will release convicted Hizbullah financier Kassim Tajideen three years into his five-year sentence due to his poor health and risks of COVID-19 infection from prison, according to court documents.

President Michel Aoun held talks Saturday with Prime Minister Hassan Diab at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, the National News Agency reported.