An Israeli drone bombed a car on the Roumine-Wadi Deir al-Zahrani road in south Lebanon on Tuesday, killing one person.

The Israeli army radio said the target of the strike was a member of Hezbollah's "aerial defense unit."

Although a new-appointed government has said the state should from now on be the sole bearer of arms after a 13-months-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri said the government would in no way disarm Hezbollah by force.

"It is not the time to take reckless risks that might take Lebanon backward, to many years ago," Metri said Monday in a televised interview.

The ambassadors of the five-nation group for Lebanon met Tuesday with Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

President Joseph Aoun held a meeting Tuesday in Baabda with the head of the ceasefire monitoring committee, U.S. General Jasper Jeffers, in the presence of U.S. Ambassador Lisa Johnson, ahead of a meeting for the committee in Naqoura, the Presidency said.

"President Aoun asked the committee chief to press Israel to implement the agreement, withdraw from the five hills and return the Lebanese captives," the Presidency added.

State Prosecutor Jamal al-Hajjar has re-allowed security and judicial authorities to cooperate with Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar, revoking ex-prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat’s ruling against him, state-run National News Agency reported on Monday.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has described the recent widespread clashes across Syria's coastal region, during which hundreds of civilians were killed, as a great danger not just to Syria "but to Lebanon as well."

Bassil warned Sunday night against divisions in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan and called for unity in the region's countries, praising the level of awareness of Tripoli's residents.

Meeting with the visiting U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has stresses the need for Lebanon to free itself from perceived Iranian influence.

Cautious calm was on Monday engulfing the southern coastal town of al-Aqbiyeh after a clash between Lebanese citizens and Syrian nationals on Sunday, the National News Agency said.

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji took part in a meeting in Jordan for Syria’s neighbors during which the conferees discussed how to assist the Syrian people in rebuilding their country in a manner that guarantees its unity, sovereignty, security and stability.

Thousands of Syrians from the unrest-hit coastal area have fled to neighboring Lebanon, mostly through unofficial crossings, after around 1,000 people were killed there in clashes and massacres, mostly civilians.

The U.N. refugee agency said in a statement that according to local authorities, 6,078 people have arrived in about a dozen villages in northern Lebanon's Akkar province fleeing the fighting and mass killings, while arrivals in other parts of the country were still being verified.