Cabinet on Friday welcomed the Lebanese Army's weapons monopolization plan and decided to keep its details confidential while asking the army to submit monthly reports on its implementation, Information Minister Paul Morcos said after a key session that witnessed a walkout by all five Shiite ministers.

“The army will begin implementing the plan according to its available and limited capabilities,” Morcos added.

Lebanon’s leaders are running out of time to disarm Hezbollah before they risk losing U.S. and Gulf Arab financial support, and even a renewed Israeli military campaign, the New York Times quoted U.S. officials as saying, ahead of a key cabinet meeting in Beirut on Friday.

The warning comes at what U.S. officials call a critical moment in Lebanon’s history, as the country’s cabinet considers a plan to force Hezbollah to surrender its weapons.

At least two people were killed and four others wounded in Israeli attacks on separate areas of south Lebanon Wednesday .

An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in the southern town of Yater, killing one person, the Health Ministry said.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has awarded the Israel Defense Prize to Israel’s foreign intelligence agency Mossad for its role in the operation that killed former Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut’s southern suburbs last year.

At the ceremony at Herzog’s residence in Jerusalem, a Mossad recruitment and operations officer, identified only as “G”, spoke on behalf of the agency and disclosed new details of the operation.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that he is “determined to withdraw all Palestinian arms from Lebanon,” after his Fatah Movement handed over weapons from several Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut’s southern suburbs and south Lebanon.

“The talk about disarming the camps in Lebanon started 15 years ago … The disarmament of Palestinian camps is a prelude to protecting Lebanon,” Abbas said in an interview with Al-Arabiya television.

MP Melhem Riachi of the Lebanese Forces has said that “the positive point in Speaker Nabih Berri’s speech (on Sunday) was his talk about a Shiite desire for resolving the issue of arms.”

“The president and the prime minister must capitalize on this development,” Riachi said in an interview with Radio Free Lebanon.

Lebanon's Central Bank is trying to address the issue of Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Qard Al-Hasan financial institution, Finance Minister Yassin Jaber told Saudi news interactive channel al-Hadath.

In July, the Central Bank prohibited all licensed financial institutions in Lebanon from dealing directly or indirectly with unlicensed entities and listed Al-Qard Al-Hassan as an example. The bank had issued similar circulars in the past but this was the first time it mentioned Al-Qard Al-Hassan by name.

Rockets, rocket launchers and sniper rifles bound for Lebanon have been seized in Homs’ Qusayr region near the Lebanese border, the Syrian interior ministry said on Monday.

Syrian security forces in Homs had on August 19 seized a truck loaded with Grad-type rockets that was allegedly headed for Lebanon, Syrian state media reported at the time.

Tasked by French President Emmanuel Macron, French special envoy to Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian will visit Beirut in the next few days to prepare for a Lebanon reconstruction conference and another for assisting the Lebanese Army, the French ambassador said.

Le Drian will also discuss the latest developments with the country’s leaders, French Ambassador to Lebanon Herve Magro told President Joseph Aoun in a meeting on Monday, the Lebanese Presidency said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the Israeli army is striking Hezbollah “whenever it tries to raise its head,” in reference to the daily strikes in Lebanon that have continued despite the ceasefire reached in November last year.

Netanyahu was listing his government’s “achievements” in the region since Hamas’ October 7 attacks, in a video addressed to the Israeli opposition.