Qatar intends to activate the contacts over Lebanon’s presidential election file, media reports have said.

An informed political source told Lebanon’s ad-Diyar newspaper, in remarks published Sunday, that the activation of the contacts will come after Doha succeeds in its mediation between Hamas and Israel, which will see the release of a batch of Israeli hostages in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners and the supply of Gaza with fuel and aid.

The issue of the looming vacuum in the army chief post is still the subject of intensive contacts and efforts but no progress has been made in this regard, which has forced the postponement of a Cabinet session that was supposed to be held Monday, a media report said on Sunday.

“The concentrated attempts to find a solution or exit for this crisis have not succeeded until the moment,” a ministerial source told ad-Diyar newspaper, stressing that Cabinet will not convene on Monday as had been previously reported.

Six missiles were fired Sunday from south Lebanon at Israel's northern Galilee region as an airstrike targeted Lebanon’s Aita al-Shaab and artillery shells hit at least 12 Lebanese southern border towns.

Israel’s Channel 12 said the missiles fell in an open area in the Shlomi settlement and that no casualties were reported.

In a ramshackle Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Hayat Shehadeh wrings her hands as she watches the Israel-Hamas war. Her daughter is in Gaza, and she has not spoken to her for a week.

While war continues in Gaza, "all resistance forces (including Hezbollah)... will continue to put pressure on Israel," senior Hezbollah official Sayyed Hashem Safieddine has said during a speech.

"There is no question today of talking about a ceasefire on one front and not the other," he added.

It is very likely that a Cabinet session will be held on Monday with the aim of extending the term of Army chief General Joseph Aoun and the probable appointment of a new chief of staff, informed sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Saturday.

The Free Patriotic Movement has meanwhile “rejected participation in Monday’s session, stressing that the appointment of a new army chief, chief of staff and military council should take place through roaming decrees signed by all ministers, not through a Cabinet session, expressing concerns that (General Joseph Aoun’s) retirement could be postponed regardless of the defense minister’s approval,” the al-Liwaa daily reported.

An Israeli drone fired two missiles at dawn Saturday at an aluminum factory on the Toul-Kfour road in south Lebanon, targeting the heart of the Nabatieh governorate for the first time since the 2006 war, the National News Agency said.

The strike fully burned the factory and its equipment, NNA added.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday alleged that Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil is “doing the impossible and crossing all red lines and constitutional limits” in order to “get rid of General Joseph Aoun in the army chief post for purely personal and opportunist considerations.”

“According to the available information, he is working night and day to appoint a new army commander. Despite our respect for all the candidates proposed for this post, he has totally disregarded everything that he had stated in terms of rejecting the ministerial decrees that have been issued over the past year because they encroach on the president’s jurisdiction,” Geagea said.

There are currently three candidates for the army chief post but one of them has the highest chances, a media report said on Friday.

“His appointment has been settled in principle and he enjoys the acceptance of all political parties and has close ties to foreign forces,” the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper quoted informed sources as saying.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Friday said he rejects “the unjust campaigns against His Eminence, Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, over his honest calls for supporting the displaced Lebanese.”

“His Eminence’s call for supporting the displaced expresses a unifying national stance,” Berri said in a statement.