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.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty announced Friday after meeting President Joseph Aoun in Baabda that Cairo was “extremely relieved after the finalization of the presidential election in Lebanon.”

Israel has complained to the U.S.-led ceasefire committee that "Iranian diplomats and others are delivering tens of millions of dollars in cash to Hezbollah to fund the group’s revival," The Wall Street Journal quoted sources as saying.

The American newspaper said Friday that it has learned from a U.S. defense official and other sources that Israel threatened to strike Beirut International Airport if Iran keeps using it to smuggle aid to Hezbollah.

The Israeli military said a Hezbollah surveillance drone that was launched toward Israeli airspace on Thursday and intercepted by Israel was a "breach of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon".

"The (army) continues to remain committed to the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon, and will not permit any terrorist activity of this kind," it said.

Overnight Israeli air strikes on the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon killed two people, the health ministry said on Friday, two months into a fragile ceasefire.

"The strike by the Israeli enemy on Janta killed two people and wounded 10," the ministry said.