President Joseph Aoun said Tuesday that the framework agreement is not "ideal" but it has saved what remains of Lebanon and limited the Israeli aggression.

"The people of the South are exhausted and only want to live in peace," he said. "We made the decision to save what remains of Lebanon and we chose negotiations because war will lead us nowhere."

Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, is expected to arrive in Beirut on Thursday, and will begin a series of meetings with several officials on Friday, media reports said.

He is scheduled to meet with President Joseph Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.

Hezbollah MP Ibrahim al-Moussawi said that self-defense is "a natural right" after the army and security forces seized explosives suspected of belonging to Hezbollah, while rejecting claims that the group is planning assassinations.

"If it is true (that the explosives belong to Hezbollah), the resistance feels no shame," he said, adding that "self-defense is a natural right for the resistance as long as the attacks continue, Israeli forces remain on Lebanese soil, and the government and military are unable to confront them".

The Lebanese Army seized over the past few hours a shipment containing 200 kilograms of C-4 explosives being transported on a donkey crossing the mountains between Syria and Lebanon, a judicial source told MTV.

The Lebanese Army later issued an official statement saying its units “continue to carry out missions to monitor and secure the Lebanese-Syrian border in order to prevent smuggling and illegal infiltration attempts.”

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called Monday for national unity, saying he is in constant communication with President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.

Berri told An-Nahar newspaper, in remarks published Monday, that his relationship with Aoun and Salam is "good" and that "communication with both is ongoing."

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam vowed Monday to punish those involved in secretly transporting half a ton of explosives into Lebanon.

Two suspected Hezbollah members were caught Thursday afternoon at a security checkpoint in Dahr al-Baidar in Lebanon's east, near a road linking the country with Syria.

A man was killed on Monday by an explosive remnant of war near his home in the southern town of Ain Ebel.

The man was a member of the Internal Security Forces and was working in his land when a foreign object exploded and killed him, the National News Agency said.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Sunday thanked President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for "their leadership in bringing a long-held Lebanese dream closer to reality: direct flights between Lebanon and the United States."

U.S. President Donald Trump has officially revoked a decades-old U.S. aviation ban on Lebanon, paving the way for direct flights between the two countries.

An Israeli strike targeted at dawn the outskirts of Kfartebnit in south Lebanon, while artillery shelled overnight into Friday al-Mansouri, Wadi Zebqine, Hadatha, Baraashit, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Harees, Beit Yahoun, Wadi Slouqi and Mays al-Jabal.

Israeli forces carried out detonations overnight in the southern border towns of kfarkela, Taybeh and Khiam.