Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea blamed Hizbullah on Friday for the country's situation and assured that efforts are ongoing to get out of this situation.

“The status-quo that we are witnessing will prolong because Hizbullah has other regional interests that it believes are more important that Lebanon,” said Geagea.

Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled Ahmed al-Khalifah stated on Friday that Hizbullah continues to trigger incitement against his country and endangers its security.

“Lebanon is in our hearts. But there is a threat against the Gulf Cooperation Council countries by Hizbullah which is still inciting and threatening the security of Bahrain,” said the Minister in an interview to al-Mustaqbal daily.

Head of the joint Palestinian security force in Lebanon Munir al-Maqdah said on Wednesday that the assassination of Fathi Zaidan a day earlier aims to shake the city of Sidon's security and trigger conflict in the Mieh Mieh refugee camp.

“The assassination of Zaidan targets the safety of the (refugee) camps and the safety of the city of Sidon,” said al-Maqdah to the Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5).

A computer system malfunction at the Beirut Airport on Wednesday quickly restored normalcy without affecting the air traffic at the terminal.

The electronic system at the Rafik Hariri International Airport was down for almost twenty minutes before it restored normal functions without affecting the flights activity.

Australian government was providing top-level consular support to an Australian television crew facing charges after being caught up in a mother's bungled child-snatching attempt in Lebanon, Australia's prime minister said on Wednesday.

An Australian mother, a four-member TV crew from Nine Network, two British agents from the Britain-based Child Abduction Recovery International company, known as CARI, and two Lebanese men have been in police custody since two Lebanese-Australian siblings Lahala, 6, and Noah, 4, were snatched from a South Beirut bus stop last week in a bid to smuggle them out of the country.

A senior Palestinian official with the mainstream Fatah Movement was killed on Tuesday in a car bombing in the southern city of Sidon.

Reports said that Fathi Zaidan died and four others, including two bodyguards, were injured in the blast near Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp.

A contractor said Tuesday that he negotiated with an Australian television network to snatch two Lebanese-Australian children from their father's family in Beirut but the network chose a cheaper option.

Col Chapman, who describes himself as a child recovery specialist, said executives at the Nine Network's "60 Minutes" program told him to "sharpen his pencil" when he quoted them 150,000 Australian dollars ($114,000) late last year to get the children Lahala, 6, and Noah, 4, out of Lebanon.

Tourism Minister Michel Pharaon stated on Monday that there is no financial scandal linked to the controversial file of the State Security Agency and slammed reports claiming that there is a kind of political “fight” over the file.

“There is no battle and no one is raising the stakes in the State Security file,” said Pharaon in a press conference.

The General Security agency was able to arrest an extremist network that recruits minors in favor of the Islamic State group and is active between the northern areas of al-Mankoubin and Wadi Nahle, al-Akhbar daily reported on Monday.

Lebanese Democratic Party chief MP Talal Arslan visited Prime Minister Tammam Salam on Sunday along with a delegation from Choueifat and told the premier that the town's residents are opposed to the establishment of a garbage landfill in the Costa Brava area.

The delegation comprised Choueifat municipal chief Melhem al-Souqi, municipality members, the town's mayors and representatives of political parties and civil society groups.