France, March 9 -- MPs convened on Monday including Mohammed Raad, head of Hezbollah's parliamentary "Loyalty to the Resistance" bloc, as Israeli warplanes flew above the nearby southern suburbs of Beirut.

According to local news portal Naharnet, 76 legislators supported the proposal, 41 voted against, and four abstained. Hezbollah's 13-member bloc in parliament voted in favor of the extension.

The Christian Lebanese Forces party, the Kataeb (Lebanese Social Democratic "Phalangist" Party,) Michael Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, and some change MPs voted against the extension. They argue that elections can be postponed until the war ends, but not necessarily for two years.

The ongoing war with Israel that began last...