Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday noted that the electricity crisis of the past two days proves that the management of the electricity sector has been a “total failure” for the past 15 years.

“There is not a single indication that this management will change, and accordingly only one solution remains: involving the private sector immediately in the process of producing electricity and distributing it across Lebanon,” Geagea said.

Palestinian militant groups Hamas and the Islamic Jihad on Monday claimed responsibility for an attempted suicide bombing that rocked Tel Aviv overnight Sunday.

In a joint statement, the two groups said suicide attacks inside Israel will continue as long as Israel continues with its massacres, assassinations and the displacement of civilians.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati told British Foreign Minister David Lammy in a call there was a "need to pressure the Israeli enemy to stop its direct targeting of southern towns and villages," after an Israeli airstrike on the Nabatieh region killed 10 Syrian civilians and wounded many others.

"The current cycle of violence may lead to an escalation with dire consequences," Mikati told Lammy, according to a statement shared by his office.

The state-run Zahrani Oil Installations overnight started pumping five million liters of fuel oil on loan to the Zahrani power plant through the supply line that connects them, a day after Lebanon’s state utility Electricité du Liban announced that its power plants had exhausted their supply of fuel oil and would stop producing electricity.

In a statement, the Installations director general said the process started after “completing all the administrative, technical and legal files,” adding that EDL’s board of directors would meet Sunday and issue a statement announcing when the power plant would become functional.

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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday accused the caretaker government of committing “high treason” due to “what’s happening in the south.

Hezbollah has issued a statement commemorating the end of the 2006 war with Israel, saying it would continue "to defend Lebanon" despite "ongoing Israeli threats and assassinations."

Hezbollah's deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem meanwhile said that U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein's visit Wednesday to Lebanon was "for show," although Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, expressed relief over the visit.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said that U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein's visit to Lebanon on Wednesday has created "positivities that can be capitalized on."

Seventeen people were wounded, four of them critically, when an Israeli airstrike targeted the intersection of the southern town of al-Abbasiyeh near Tyre on Wednesday, the Health Ministry said.

Another strike meanwhile targeted a house in the southern border town of Rab Tlatine.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Wednesday stressed to visiting U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein “the need to press Israel to halt its attacks and threats,” noting that “the gateway for the solution is a ceasefire in Gaza and the implementation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, especially Resolution 1701.”