Part of a suggestion to form a Cabinet of 32 ministers instead of 30, was to allocate a ministerial seat from President Michel Aoun’s share to Independent Sunni MP Faisal Karami, and to let Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri name the two extra ministers, the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported on Thursday.

A reliable source told the daily the proposal -aiming to ease the government formation gridlock-- calls for “naming Karami instead of the latter’s candidate Fadi al-Asayli, and that Hariri be given the right to name the two extra ministers (a Alawite and a Christian minority minister) in compensation for accepting the appointment of Karami,” he said.

Israeli army Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in remarks he addressed to Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Twitter that “Hizbullah is still lying to you and to the Lebanese.”

“You have said these things about (UN) Resolution 1701 long ago. We truly want to believe you, but the problem is that Hizbullah is still lying to you and to the Lebanese,” said Adraee.

The Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Imad Othman stressed on Wednesday that although the ISF members are “allowed to use their weapons” during an operation, but they “did not use that right to fire gunshots yesterday” (during Saturday’s Jahlieyh raid).

The Israeli army launched on Wednesday an air balloon with surveillance cameras from one of its military positions opposite the area of Kroum al-Sharaqi- Mays al-Jabal, in the district of Marjayoun, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

NNA added that Israeli troops have also installed a surveillance camera, over the cement separation wall between Lebanon and occupied Palestine, in the area of al-Abbara near Kfarkila.

In addition to receiving a telephone call from President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri received a similar call from the army leadership, the main objective of which was how to deal with the latest Israeli developments, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that an operation launched by the Israeli army on Lebanon’s border to destroy suspected Hizbullah tunnels would continue “as long as necessary.”

President Michel Aoun on Tuesday called on Lebanon’s military and security agencies to “closely monitor” the situation in south Lebanon, after Israel launched an operation against alleged Hizbullah tunnels on its side of the border.

After following up on the developments, the president held a series of phone calls that involved Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and Army Commander General Joseph Aoun, the National News Agency said.

Caretaker Minister of Environment Tarek Khatib leading a Free Patriotic Movement delegation visited the Secretary General of al-Mustaqbal Movement, Ahmad Hariri in Qantari in the aftermaths of the Jahliyeh incident.

“We carry a message from the FPM chief, (caretaker) Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil to al-Mustaqbal Movement and all the parties in the Mountain region and the homeland, that it is not in our ethics to insult fellow political figures in the country,” said Khatib.

The Saudi Arabian embassy in Lebanon refuted on Tuesday the “claims” made by head of the Tawhid Party, Wiam Wahhab, affirming the Saudi keenness on Lebanon’s “stability and unity.”

Fire has swept through the tents of Syrian refugees in the northeastern town of al-Yammouneh at dawn leaving two killed and several others wounded, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Two Syrian refugees identified by their initials as Aa.M. and W.Aa were killed after the fire razed through around 50 resettlement tents, said NNA.