The decisions taken by Lebanese authorities regarding arms monopolization “were taken to be implemented and nothing will change the president’s stances,” ministerial sources close to President Joseph Aoun said, in response to Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem’s latest remarks.

“Qassem wanted to object and escalate in front of his environment, and this all remains rhetorical,” the sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, noting that it is unlikely that Hezbollah would take any steps on the ground.

The contacts of the past two days, especially those that followed the meetings of Arab and Western officials with Lebanese leaders, highlighted "the intention of Washington and Tel Aviv to beging working on ending the work of the Mechanism committee in its current form,” a media report said.

Lebanese leaders received “a U.S.-Israeli request for raising the level of negotiations” between Lebanon and Israel, with Washington suggesting that Lebanon “agree to the formation of a political-military committee with Israel that would hold its meetings outside the region and exclusively under U.S. sponsorship,” al-Akhbar newspaper said.

Hezbollah has changed the way it deals on the ground with the Lebanese Army and it tried to prevent army troops from reaching sites bombed by Israel north of the Litani River, sources told Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath channel.

The sources added that a fistfight erupted between members of Hezbollah and the allied Amal Movement after Israel bombed buildings in the southern town of Kfar Hatta, with Amal accusing Hezbollah of “storing weapons in residential areas.”

Israeli airstrikes targeted Monday Wadi Burghoz, Ansar's outskirts, al-Mahmoudiyeh, and al-Mourouj, with the Israeli army claiming it struck Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon.

"A short while ago, the (Israeli military) struck terror infrastructure in several areas of southern Lebanon... used by Hezbollah to conduct drills and training for terrorists" to attack Israeli forces and civilians, the military said in a statement.

Families of the Beirut port blast victims protested Monday the appointment of Gracia Azzi as the Director General of Customs in front of her office at the Beirut port.

Azzi was summoned for questioning by Judge Tarek Bitar in relation to the 2020 Beirut Port explosion.

Army chief Rodolphe Haykal will visit Washington from February 3 to 5, media reports said.

Haykal will present to Washington detailed military maps, and a list of Hezbollah sites and tunnels, local TV network MTV said.

The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, has warned that U.S. President Donald Trump "wants to intervene in all regions of the world to prevent democratic life, aiming to confiscate the world's resources."

He added that Trump and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, "mobilized American and Israeli agents in Iran in an attempt to topple the regime and change the equation of 'Resistance Iran' into another form under their management."

The local and international consensus, which weeks ago resulted in postponing the second phase of the disarmament plan for several weeks, was linked to the latest developments in Iran, a media report said.

Visiting Saudi envoy Prince Yazid bin Farhan told Lebanese figure whom he met on Thursday that the process of disarming armed groups in Lebanon “will continue until the end and the decision is final,” a media report said.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, in a phone call with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, affirmed Cairo's “support for Lebanese national institutions in fulfilling their full responsibilities to maintain the security and stability of their country,” the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said.

Abdelatty expressed his welcome for Lebanon's announcement regarding the completion of the first phase of the plan to confine weapons to the state south of the Litani River, considered this a step that "reflects a clear commitment to strengthening state sovereignty and consolidating the role of its legitimate institutions."