Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has held a meeting in Lebanon with Ziad al-Nakhalah, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.

Nasrallah and Nakhalah “demonstrated the latest events in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and carried out an evaluation of the battle that occurred with the Israeli enemy at all the battlefield, political and media levels,” Hezbollah said in a statement.

Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad has said that his Ministry has not received “any official or unofficial offer from Turkey for drilling in the border (offshore) blocks.”

“Block 9 is tendered to the TotalEnergies company and when I was in Turkey no one raised the issue with me,” Fayyad told al-Mayadeen television.

Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati held a new meeting Wednesday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace to discuss the formation of a new government.

"Discussions will be continued later," Mikati said in a terse statement while leaving the palace.

Lebanon, which is yet to reach a sea border demarcation deal with Israel, has received a Turkish proposal for investment and drilling in the southern oil and gas blocks near Israel’s border, a Lebanese official source said.

“The Turkish proposal involves drilling and investment works in Block 9, which lies on the maritime border,” the source told Russia’s Sputnik news agency.

Around 400 judges held a general assembly Tuesday at the Court of Cassation and decided to carry on with an open-ended strike aimed at protesting “the difficult financial, social and health conditions that Lebanon’s judges are going through,” the National News Agency said.

“Contacts with the officials have not led to any result,” the agency quoted the judges as saying.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka on Tuesday visited the northern city of Tripoli, where she met with local authorities, members of parliament as well as NGOs working to promote reconciliation, capacity-building and opportunities for the youth.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Tuesday vowed to seek the election of a Lebanese president who resembles slain president-elect Bashir Gemayel, who was assassinated in a bomb attack in 1982.

“On the 40th anniversary of your election, our promise to you is to secure the election of a president who resembles you,” Geagea tweeted.

Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati asked Tuesday caretaker Minister of Public Works & Transport Ali Hamieh to preserve the remaining southern block of the Beirut port silos as a memorial.

Another significant section of the devastated Beirut Port silos had collapsed on Tuesday morning in a cloud of dust, while the remaining southern block is more stable and not at imminent risk of collapse, said French civil engineer Emmanuel Durand, who has installed sensors on the silos.

Head of the Justice Committee MP Georges Adwan said Tuesday that the government doesn't have an economic plan but is rather taking random and ill-considered steps.

"The customs dollar is part of a non-existent plan," Adwan said, asking how and why did the government choose the rate of LBP 20,000 to the U.S. dollar, while depositors can only withdraw from their dollar savings at a rate of LBP 8,000.

U.S. department of state spokesperson Ned Price has said that U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein is in touch with the parties in Lebanon and Israel and that a resolution to the maritime border conflict is possible.

Price did not announce when would Hochstein head to Lebanon. "I don’t have any travel for Amos Hochstein to announce at the time," he said in a press conference.