The widow of slain Lebanese intellectual Lokman Slim, a critic of Hezbollah, has denounced a judge investigating his murder four years ago for allegedly closing the probe.

The funeral for Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, killed last September in an Israeli strike, will be held on February 23, the group's current chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Sunday.

Qassem also confirmed for the first time that leading official Sayyed Hashem Safieddine had been chosen to succeed Nasrallah before he too was killed in an Israeli raid in October.

Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam has reached an agreement with the Shiite Duo over its representation in the new government, following lengthy and strenuous negotiations, media reports said on Sunday.

Residents of southern border villages have organized so-called return marches for the second consecutive Sunday, flocking since early morning to the western entrance of Mays al-Jabal and Houla and demanding to enter them accompanied by the Lebanese Army.

Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam met with Hezbollah and Amal Movement envoys and he agreed to the nomination of ex-MP Yassine Jaber for the finance ministerial portfolio, Shiite Duo sources said.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday stressed that there are "good" political parties and bad political parties.

The army on Friday reportedly arrested a man who rammed his vehicle into motorbikes carrying Hezbollah supporters during a funeral procession on the Sarafand road.

Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Morgan Ortagus -- who succeeded U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein -- began her first visit to Lebanon on Thursday by meeting at the U.S. Embassy with U.S. Major General Jasper Jeffers, the head of the ceasefire monitoring committee.

A new visit to Beirut by Saudi envoy Yazid bin Farhan is an indication that Saudi Arabia may be trying to facilitate the mission of PM-designate Nawaf Salam, informed sources said.

Hezbollah legislator Ibrahim Moussawi called Friday Israeli strikes on east Lebanon "a very dangerous violation and a blatant and explicit aggression."

Two people were killed and 10 others were wounded in an overnight strike on an unofficial border crossing in eastern Lebanon, as Israel launched four strikes on the Janta border crossing in the eastern province of Baalbek, while two other strikes targeted two illegal Syria-Lebanon border crossings in northern Lebanon late Thursday and early Friday.