War-hit Lebanon will not accept to receive aid for its reconstruction under political or military conditions, including the disarmament of Hezbollah, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said.
Amal leader and Hezbollah's ally Berri told ad-Diyar newspaper, in remarks published Tuesday, that the country's reconstruction must be a national priority and that Lebanon is seeking international support without relinquishing its sovereign rights or making concessions that could affect its national principles.

More than 100,000 residents of southern Lebanese border towns are still displaced, while Lebanese authorities have been informed that funds for reconstruction are currently frozen pending “the demarcation of the land border with Israel, security stability and transparency in the distribution of aid,” a media report said.

An Israeli drone strike on a car killed one person in the Tyre district town of Reshknanay on Tuesday, reportedly a senior Hezbollah Radwan Force commander, the latest such raid amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike overnight on the al-Shaara outskirts, east of the Lebanese town of Janta on the Lebanese-Syrian border, media reports said.

President Joseph Aoun took part Tuesday in Cairo in the opening session of an extraordinary Arab summit on the Palestinian cause.
Aoun also held meetings on the summit's sidelines with U.N. chief Antonio Guterres, Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit, Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid and Rashad al-Alimi, the chairman of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council.

President Joseph Aoun and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman have stressed “the importance of the full implementation of the Taif Agreement and the relevant U.N. resolutions,” in a joint statement issued after Aoun’s first visit to the kingdom in his capacity as president.

Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar has stressed that the ministry is committed to organizing the May municipal and mayoral elections on time.

MP Walid al-Baarini, who represents the impoverished region of Akkar in parliament, has defended his recent call for “federalism,” saying his proposal “carries unification rather than partitioning as some are claiming for their own reasons.”
“Perhaps there is a necessity now for each side to win its right from the central state, regardless of numbers, strength and affiliations,” Baarini said in an interview with the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper.

Public Works and Transportation Minister Fayez Rasamny has said that Lebanese authorities have “taken all the necessary measures at Beirut’s international airport.”

An Israeli drone was hovering Monday over the Tyre district towns of al-Mansouri and Byout al-Siyyad, blaring “provocative statements,” the National News Agency said, in reference to anti-Hezbollah propaganda.
