Speaker Nabih Berri has said that he is still optimistic regarding the presidential file, noting that he had called for the Jan. 9 electoral session more than a month prior to its date to give everyone several weeks to conduct discussions and reach agreements.

As Israel kept violating a U.S.-French brokered ceasefire, weeks after it was reached, Hezbollah accused it of taking advantage of a 60-days time limit, describing the Lebanese state's efforts to stop Israel's violations as unsuccessful.

As part of the ceasefire deal, Israeli troops have 60 days to withdraw from Lebanon, while Hezbollah will have to pull its heavy weapons away from the border area to north of the Litani river.

The head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammad Raad, has noted that the regime change in Syria was not spontaneous, but rather the product of a "program prepared by regional and international forces whose interests intersected over changing the authority in Syria."

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea will work on securing consensus over a new president, MP Farid al-Khazen said after meeting him on Monday.

For Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, the joy of Christmas this year is doubled as he celebrates the ouster of Syrian President and Hezbollah ally Bashar al-Assad.

Geagea appeared Sunday night on a screen in a LF-organized event in Canada. He called on Lebanese expats to return, promising that a U.S.-French brokered ceasefire in Lebanon and the fall of al-Assad are a real chance to rebuild Lebanon.

Speaker and Amal leader Nabih Berri reassured Monday that "the atmosphere is good" regarding the presidential file.

"God willing, there will be a president in the January 9 session," he added.

An Israeli drone on Monday raided a valley on the outskirts of the Sidon district town of al-Najjariyeh, wounding three people, the National News Agency and the Health Ministry said.

Israel has carried out at least three airstrikes in the Sidon district since the ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect on November 27.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has called for Syrians who sought refuge in his country to return home following the fall of Syria's longtime leader, Bashar al-Assad.

"The consequences of the Syrian war made Lebanon home to the largest number of refugees per capita, with one-third of our population comprising of Syrian refugees", Mikati said Saturday at a Rome political festival.

Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli drone strike in the south killed one person on Saturday, the latest deadly raid despite a more than two-week ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

"An Israeli enemy drone strike... killed one person" in al-Khardali in the Marjayoun district, the health ministry said in a statement. The official National News Agency reported a car was targeted.

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said on Saturday that Syria's new rulers, who ousted the Lebanese armed group's ally Bashar al-Assad, should not recognize neighboring Israel or establish ties with it.

"We hope that this new party in power will see Israel as an enemy and not normalize relations with it," Qassem said in a televised speech, his first public remarks since Islamist-led rebels toppled Assad following an offensive launched on November 27, the same day that a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect.