President Joseph Aoun stressed Sunday that the Lebanese “no longer want war,” adding that the thorny issue of Hezbollah’s arms will be addressed in a calm and responsible manner.

Lebanon's health ministry said one person was killed Sunday in an Israeli strike in the country's south, the latest such raid despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

An "Israeli enemy strike on a vehicle in Kawthariyat al-Siyyad," located inland between the southern cities of Sidon and Tyre, killed "one person and wounded two people," the health ministry said in a statement.

Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Morgan Ortagus has ridiculed Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem’s latest remarks on his group’s controversial arsenal of weapons.

Hezbollah "will not let anyone disarm" it, its chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said Friday evening, as Washington presses Beirut to compel the Iran-backed group to hand over its weapons.

Hezbollah, long a dominant force in Lebanese politics, was left weakened by more than a year of hostilities with Israel sparked by the Gaza war, including an Israeli ground incursion and two months of heavy bombardment that decimated the group's leadership.

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on Friday hit a vehicle near the southern coastal city of Sidon, killing one person.

Despite a November 27 ceasefire that sought to halt more than a year of conflict -- including two months of all-out war -- between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel has continued to carry out near-daily strikes in Lebanon.

MP Hassan Fadlallah of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc noted Thursday that “Lebanon is still living under a continuous Israeli aggression leading to the fall of martyrs and wounded from our people.”

Former Interior Minister Nohad Machnouq appeared in court Thursday for the first time before judge Tarek Bitar who is investigating the 2020 Beirut port explosion, a judicial source told AFP.

The catastrophic blast on August 4, 2020 -- one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history -- devastated large parts of Beirut, killing more than 220 people and injuring over 6,500.

Information Minister Paul Morcos said Thursday that Lebanon has recorded 2,740 Israeli violations of the ceasefire.

Morcos said in a press conference following a cabinet meeting that 190 people have been killed and 485 injured in Lebanon by Israeli strikes since the ceasefire began.

The ministers of the Lebanese Forces on Thursday reiterated their call for setting a timeframe for the handover of Hezbollah’s weapons, Industry Minister Joe Issa al-Khoury said.

Israel was supposed to fully withdraw from Lebanon under a ceasefire reached in late November after more than a year of fighting. Israeli forces withdrew from villages in southern Lebanon but stayed in five "strategic" overlook locations along the border inside Lebanon.

The Israeli army also continued to carry out strikes against what it says are militant targets and Israel's defense minister said Wednesday that Israeli troops will stay "indefinitely" in "security zones" in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and Syria.