Lebanon is waiting for a response from Israel after having relayed its maritime border position to U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein, amid conflicting reports about Israel's response.

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported Thursday that the Israeli proposal suggests a territorial exchange in which Israel would give a maritime area to Lebanon and Lebanon would in return give Israel a coastal area.

Lebanese authorities will investigate an audio recording shared online threatening to attack the Saudi Arabian embassy in Beirut, the interior ministry said in a statement.

"Following the spread of an audio recording... threatening the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Beirut with an act of terrorism," the interior minister ordered an investigation, the ministry said.

In an audio recording circulating on social media, Beirut-based Saudi dissident Ali Hashem has threatened to attack the Saudi embassy in Beirut should Saudi authorities continue to “harass” his family back in the kingdom.

“If anyone touches any member of my family, no employee at the Saudi embassy will remain alive. I will carry out an unprecedented act and I will annihilate every person at the embassy and you know my capabilities very well,” Hashem says in the recording.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has held a meeting in Lebanon with Ziad al-Nakhalah, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.

Nasrallah and Nakhalah “demonstrated the latest events in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and carried out an evaluation of the battle that occurred with the Israeli enemy at all the battlefield, political and media levels,” Hezbollah said in a statement.

The current week will be the “final” week to settle the cabinet formation file, a senior political leader said.

“If the government is not formed this week, it will be totally impossible to form it after that, because the country will enter next week in the 60-day constitutional deadline for the election of a new president, and the country will remain governed by a caretaker cabinet,” the political leader told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Wednesday.

Contacts and negotiations will intensify in the remaining days of August to reach a solution for the sea border demarcation file that would satisfy both the Lebanese and Israeli sides and prevent any possible escalation or full-blown war, official sources concerned with the file said.

Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad has said that his Ministry has not received “any official or unofficial offer from Turkey for drilling in the border (offshore) blocks.”

“Block 9 is tendered to the TotalEnergies company and when I was in Turkey no one raised the issue with me,” Fayyad told al-Mayadeen television.

President Michel Aoun may stay in the Baabda Palace following the end of his presidential term in order not to cede his powers to a caretaker cabinet, senior Free Patriotic Movement sources have said.

“We will not accept, in any way, the remaining of the caretaker cabinet should we reach presidential vacuum, and we will not accept the scheme of Speaker Nabih Berri and PM-designate Najib Mikati that is based on ambiguous constitutional edicts,” the sources told al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published Wednesday.

Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati held a new meeting Wednesday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace to discuss the formation of a new government.

"Discussions will be continued later," Mikati said in a terse statement while leaving the palace.

Lebanon, which is yet to reach a sea border demarcation deal with Israel, has received a Turkish proposal for investment and drilling in the southern oil and gas blocks near Israel’s border, a Lebanese official source said.

“The Turkish proposal involves drilling and investment works in Block 9, which lies on the maritime border,” the source told Russia’s Sputnik news agency.