Progressives Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Tuesday tweeted about Lebanon’s electricity crisis and the diesel that Hizbullah brought from Iran.

“As if everything is calculated. An announcement is made about Jordanian electricity and Egyptian gas, which is a chance for beginning to address the electricity crisis, after which comes a diesel invasion,” Jumblat tweeted.

President Michel Aoun held a meeting Tuesday in Baabda with Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.

The Presidency said the meeting tackled the developments “after Israel tasked an American firm with offering evaluation services for the drilling of gas and oil wells in the disputed (offshore) area.”

Phillipe Lazzarini, the head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, has said that he is “very alarmed” by two “major” security developments that happened at two Palestinian refugees camps in Lebanon over the weekend.

On the morning of September 19, protesters from the temporary housing units near the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp broke into the UNRWA construction site office, causing severe damage to the premises and to seven Agency vehicles. No one was injured.

A number of importing companies will start distributing gasoline to the local market, Georges Brax – member of the syndicate of gas stations owners – said on Tuesday.

Brax told the National News Agency that many gas stations will re-open successively and that “we will witness a remarkable improvement” in the coming days.

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil on Monday said his bloc will grant its confidence to Najib Miqati’s government because he respected “constitutional partnership” with President Michel Aoun.

“We will give confidence because the line-up came according to the norms. The prime minister respected constitutional partnership with the President and balance in portfolios and sectarian distribution, albeit with some flaws,” Bassil said during a parliamentary session to debate the government’s policy statement.

Iranian fuel has entered Lebanon without state authorization and despite U.S. sanctions following arrangements by Hizbullah, consecrating the party's status as the main powerhouse in the crisis-hit country.

"This latest event gives yet another confirmation that Hizbullah has considerably increased its sway over the Lebanese state," said political scientist Karim Emile Bitar.

The "Karama - Beirut Human Rights Film Festival" fifth edition kicks off on 23 September 2021, at 7 PM at Sunflower Theater, in Tayyouneh, Beirut.

The festival, organized by NGO “Art Factory 961” under the theme “Occupy the Void,” is held this year in cooperation with the United Nations Information Centre in Beirut (UNIC Beirut), with the support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Lebanon, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation and “Taawon” NGO.

A plenary session to discuss the ministerial policy statement will be held today, Monday, at the UNESCO Palace, followed by another session in the evening.

During the morning session, one or two deputies from each bloc will speak briefly.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday called on the new government to “work as a unified national team that reflects the state’s unity.”

He added that the government must “halt the deterioration and confront the incessant attempts to undermine the state and harm its democratic system.”

Lebanese Ambassador to the U.N. Amal Mudallali has filed a memo to U.N. chief Antonio Guterres and Security Council President Geraldine Byrne Nason over the reports that Israel has granted the Halliburton company contracts to drill gas and oil wells in a disputed offshore area.

In the memo, filed at the instructions of Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, Lebanon asks the Security Council to “verify that the drilling works do not lie in an area disputed by Lebanon and Israel, in order to avoid any infringement on the rights and sovereignty of Lebanon.”