President Joseph Aoun met Friday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to put the final touches on Lebanon's response to a U.S. request to disarm Hezbollah, Saudi news interactive channel al-Hadath said.

Aoun who took office in the aftermath of more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah had vowed a state monopoly on bearing arms, while demanding Israel comply with a November ceasefire.

“I beg you, come help me! Dad and mom are dying! Dad and mom are dying! Dad and mom are dying! Come help me quickly!” says a toddler girl in an audio recording that went viral after a deadly Israeli strike overnight on a house in the southern town of Qabrikha.

Former public works and transport minister Ghazi Zoaiter on Friday failed to appear before Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar, the National News Agency said.

U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack is currently holding consultations in New York and will visit Lebanon next week, local al-Joumhouria newspaper said Friday.

According to the daily, Israel has told Barrack that it expects Hezbollah to hand over its ballistic and hypersonic missiles before engaging in further discussions.

Israeli forces made an incursion at dawn Friday into the center of the southern border town of Mays al-Jabal, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Tehran is reportedly making new efforts to arm its allies including Hezbollah across the Middle East.

Senior fellow at the Washington Institute for near east policy Michael Knights said that "Iran is rebuilding its presence in the Levant by sending missiles to Hezbollah and weapons from Iraq to Syria".

The Central Bank has denied a media report that claimed it intends to shut down the branches of the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association across Lebanon.

Hezbollah has welcomed the decision of a French appeals court to release pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, imprisoned for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats.

The injustice suffered by Georges Abdallah would remain a stain on the record of the French judicial and political system, Hezbollah said in a statement Thursday.

Four people were killed on Thursday in separate Israeli strikes on south Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry reported, as Israel said it had targeted two Hezbollah members.

The attacks are the latest despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert has told the United Nations Security Council that "the current window of opportunity to effect real change in Lebanon will not stay open indefinitely".

During a briefing Thursday on the implementation of resolution 1701, Speaking alongside Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Mohamed Khaled Khiari, she commended steps taken by the Lebanese authorities in recent months and significant progress made by the Lebanese Armed Forces.