The Lebanese Army has decided to reinforce its current presence in south Lebanon by deploying 6,000 more troops at once in the entire area that lies south of the Litani River, a media report said.

A Lebanese Army officer was found dead inside his car after he was targeted in an Israeli strike, the Lebanese Army said on Monday.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called for parliament to convene to elect a president next month to break a gridlock of over two years and reactivate the country's crippled state institutions.

In remarks published Monday in al-Joumhouria newspaper, Berri said he took the initiative without any foreign coordination.

The Israeli army is committed to the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon and the 60-day period is “a gradual phase to ensure the elimination of Hezbollah's threat,” Israeli army spokesman Daniel Haggari said on Monday.

The U.S. has joined France in accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire with Lebanon, Israeli reports said on Monday.

Washington has especially complained over the use of drones over Beirut and the message was conveyed to Israeli officials through U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein, the reports said.

Lebanon is trying to pick up the pieces and return to some level of normal life after a war with Israel that decimated large swaths of its south and east, displacing an estimated 1.2 million people.

The Lebanese military said it detonated unexploded munitions left over from Israeli strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon. Elsewhere, the Lebanese Civil Defense said it removed five bodies from under the rubble in two southern Lebanese towns over the past 24 hours.

A fragile ceasefire went into effect in Lebanon and Israel last week but challenges still remain.

Israel continues to call on displaced Lebanese not to return to dozens of southern villages during the initial two-month halt to fighting. It also continues to impose a daily curfew for people moving across the Litani River between 5 pm and 7 am. Many families who want to bury their dead deep in southern Lebanon are unable to do so at this point.

Since a fragile ceasefire went into effect last week, Israel has violated the agreement dozens of times. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri counts more than 52.

The number of violations has risen since Speaker Berri's interview with al-Joumhouria newspaper was published Monday, on the sixth day of the truce. An Israeli drone strike wounded Monday a Lebanese army soldier in the eastern region of Hermel, while another drone targeted a motorcycle in Marjaayoun, killing a State Security agent on duty.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, Massad Boulos, has said that Trump has “honored his promise” as to working on achieving peace in the Middle East once elected, noting that the ceasefire in Lebanon was an “achievement” made by U.S. President Joe Biden “in cooperation” with Trump.

“It is our duty to follow up on the ceasefire agreement and we hope it will be quickly implemented the same way it was quickly reached,” Boulos added, in an interview with LBCI television.

Pope Francis called on Lebanese politicians on Sunday to urgently elect a new president, with a view of restoring normal government functions in the country.

"I address an urgent invitation to all Lebanese politicians to elect the president of the republic immediately," the pontiff said at Saint Peter’s Square at the end of Sunday Angelus prayer.