Progressive Socialist Party chief ex-MP Walid Jumblat on Friday said in an interview to Russia's state-owned English-language channel RT that the Israeli occupied “Shebaa Farms are not Lebanese,” noting that Hizbullah is a political party representing around 30% of the Lebanese people.

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil appeased concerns of an economic collapse saying “everything said was the result of rumors some find easy to circulate around,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri discussed the ways to better bilateral and trade relations between Lebanon and Kuwait during a meeting with Kuwaiti Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Nasser Abdullah al-Roudan and the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Lebanon Abdul Al al-Qinai.

A UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon Thursday said a tunnel discovered earlier this year by Israel had crossed the Lebanese-Israeli border, in the third such breach of a ceasefire resolution.

The Cabinet convened at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on Thursday and set a session on Tuesday solely to discuss the 2019 state budget.

A member of the Internal Security Forces was found dead with a gunshot wound near the American University of Beirut, VDL (93.3) radio station said on Thursday.

The Lebanese Forces and Free Patriotic Movement are still in an open conflict over many internal issues the most recent was over leaking of minutes of meeting between Lebanese officials and Marshall Billingslea, assistant secretary for terrorist financing in the United States Department of the Treasury, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.

Head of Development and Liberation parliamentary bloc, Speaker Nabih Berri said Lebanon should start preparations for a new parliamentary electoral law, noting that his bloc prepared a “law initiative” in that regard, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Wednesday said Lebanon and Saudi Arabia are seeking to sign several future agreements, assuring that a Saudi decision to lift the ban on travel to Lebanon has contributed to an increase in the number of expatriates.

Hariri, speaking at a conference on humanitarian work, he asserted that there is a real will on the part of Saudi Arabia to “deepen” relations with Lebanon, stressing it has always shown concern about Lebanon and the Israeli aggressions it was subject to.

The General Security Directorate issued an alert urging vigilance from Israeli agents trying to enter Lebanon under the guise of “tourism excursions,” it said in a statement on Wednesday.

“The Israeli enemy is trying to enter Lebanon by recruiting its agents in delegations under the cover of "tourist trips", in order to use them for security purposes inside Lebanon," said the statement.