Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea has long opposed electing a president through dialogue. "All possible dialogues have led to nowhere," Geagea told MTV on Monday night.

Geagea revealed that MPs from his party have been talking to Amal MPs but that all dialogues were "fruitless," accusing Hezbollah and its allies of clinging to their presidential candidate, Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh. "This won't be a real dialogue," he said.

Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel has accused Hezbollah of seeking to “legalize its weapons through a certain alignment and a loyal president.”

Armed forces retirees protested Tuesday their low salaries and blocked the Karantina road with burning tires.

"Our demand is to live in dignity," a protester said.

France’s new foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné arrived Tuesday in Lebanon and met with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Séjourné is scheduled to meet key Lebanese politicians in Beirut, after stops in Egypt on Saturday, Jordan on Sunday and Israel on Monday.

Hezbollah targeted Tuesday Israeli troops and positions including a command center in northern Israel as Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling targeted Lebanese border villages.

Hezbollah said it has targeted the Beit Hillel command center, inflicting casualties and groups of soldiers in the Jal al-Alam, al-Marj, and Ramim posts. The group had earlier targeted the Ramim post with Burkan missiles. It said all attacks were "direct hits."

Amal Movement is fighting "in front of Hezbollah" in south Lebanon, head of the movement and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said.

Amal has not announced any attack on Israel since the cross-border clashes began between Hezbollah and Israel on October, but its chief told al-Jadeed TV on Sunday that Amal is "resisting" in the south "within its military capabilities," which are far inferior to those of Hezbollah.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has heard from the Quintet's ambassadors that there is no veto on any presidential candidate.

Berri told al-Jadeed TV on Sunday that all the ambassadors including the Saudi ambassador have told him that the Quintet has no candidates and no veto on any name but would rather help the Lebanese choose their own president.

Hezbollah announced Monday the death of three of its members, as Israeli artillery shelled the outskirts of Dhaira, Tayr Harfa, al-Jebbayn and Zibqine in south Lebanon.

Hezbollah later claimed two attacks on Israeli posts in the occupied Shebaa Farms and Israel bombed the border towns of Mays al-Jabal, Rashaya al-Fokhar, Baraachit, al-Labbouneh, al-Naqoura, and Shihine.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has warned that a potential pause in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza will not apply to the ongoing hostilities with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

“If Hezbollah thinks that when there’s a pause in fighting in the south (Gaza), we will hold fire against it, it’s sorely mistaken,” Gallant said after meeting troops from the Israeli army’s Alpine Unit on Mount Hermon, according to a statement from his office.

The Amal Movement confirmed Saturday that two of its fighters were killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight in the southern border town of Blida.