The Lebanese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned the Turkish ambassador to protest a Turkish statement that criticized President Michel Aoun over his latest remarks about the Ottoman era.

“At the instructions of Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, the ministry’s director of political and consular affairs Ghadi al-Khoury summoned Turkish Ambassador to Lebanon Hakan Cakil in connection with the statement issued by the Turkish foreign ministry on September 1,” the Lebanese ministry said in a statement.

Pierre Duquesne, the French inter-ministerial delegate for the Mediterranean, stressed on Tuesday that the projects and reforms approved at CEDRE conference in Paris still stand, but that Lebanon needs to implement a series of reforms to convince the international community.

Israeli media reportedly said on Tuesday that Hizbullah has proven capability of targeting positions inside Israel sought to be safe by its army, Israeli Channel 12 said.

Israel sent a “spy balloon” on Monday over the border town of Mays al-Jabal one day after a border flare between Hizbullah and Israel sent security concerns high, the National News Agency reported.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged Lebanon and Israel to maintain a ceasefire on their borders and ensure full compliance with UN Security Council resolutions.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Sunday urged the United States and France to "intervene" after Hizbullah traded cross-border fire with Israel.

Hariri contacted U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and French President Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic adviser to ask for intervention by their countries "and the international community in facing the developments on the southern border," Hariri's office said in a statement.

Hizbullah announced Sunday it destroyed an Israeli military vehicle and killed and wounded those inside, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the attack did not cause any casualties.

Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said Israel retaliated to the operation by striking the "attack cell", firing around 100 shells on south Lebanon and launching a number of helicopter raids.

The Israeli army on Sunday fired several 155mm shells on the Jabal al-Rous area in the occupied Shebaa Farms and Kfarshouba Hills, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.

It said the Israelis opened fire from their posts in the al-Zaoura area in Syria’s occupied Golan Heights.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Sunday described Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as an “Iranian puppet,” hours after the Hizbullah leader reiterated that his group will retaliate against Israel over a deadly airstrike in Syria and a drone explosion over Beirut’s southern suburbs.

“Nasrallah is an Iranian puppet who has taken charge of the file of the Iranian attack that had been planned from Syria, and most probably he had not been aware of it,” Katz tweeted in Arabic.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Saturday his movement's response to a recent Israeli drone attack on the group's southern Beirut subrubs stronghold had been "decided."