The Israeli army said Saturday that it shot down a surface-to-air missile launched from Lebanese territory at an Israeli military drone.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri will call for a legislative session next month, during which parliament would discuss extending the term of Army chief General Joseph Aoun, ahead of his planned retirement in January.

"I will call for a session during the first half of December," Berri told al-Jadeed TV, assuring that there are only two options, either the extension of Aoun's term or the appointment of a new army chief. "There is no third option and no assignment (of the highest ranking officer)."

Qatari officials are expected to visit Lebanon and hold very limited meetings to resume discussions over the presidential file and the army chief file, informed sources said.

As calm returned to Gaza and to Lebanon's southern border Friday, former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat remained worried.

In an interview published Friday in al-Joumhouria newspaper, Jumblat said he is cautious about the truce and feared that the war was still at its beginning.

Cabinet will not convene next week nor in the foreseeable future to discuss the army chief file, governmental sources said.

UNIFIL Head Lt. Gen. Aroldo Lázaro says he is “concerned by the ongoing intensification of the exchanges of fire along the Blue Line that has already claimed too many lives, caused significant damage, and jeopardized livelihoods.”

Calm returned to Lebanon's southern border Friday as a temporary truce took effect in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, according to Lebanese state media and the Israeli military.

Since the Gaza war erupted on October 7, Lebanon's southern border with Israel has witnessed deadly exchanges of fire, primarily involving the Israeli army and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, as well as Palestinian militant groups.

A number of Lebanese politicians and spiritual leaders on Thursday reacted to the killing of the son of Hezbollah’s top MP Mohammed Raad in an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon.

French special presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian is returning to Lebanon "soon".

"The country is on the brink of war," Le Drian said in an interview with France Info, stressing the presidential and governmental void.

The head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, has said that his son Abbas has been slain while seeking to “lift injustice and resist tyranny and Zionist savagery and the savagery of all the enemies of humanity.”

“We are firm on this path, we will carry on … and we want the pride and dignity of our people and nation,” Raad said as he received the coffin of his slain son.