Kuwaiti authorities said they were able to detain Hussein Zoaiter, whom they identified as “a powerful Lebanese drug trafficker involved in transporting drugs to Kuwait and the Gulf countries,” the Kuwait al-Rai newspaper reported on Saturday.

The Lebanese army on Saturday reportedly closed all roads leading to the Marjayoun plain opposite the Israeli settlement of Metulla in the occupied territories, media reports said.

President Michel Aoun condemned what he called "a crime committed by Israeli forces" after Israeli fire struck a group of protesters on the southern Lebanese border killing a man, the Presidency said on Twitter.

A Lebanese protester was killed and another was wounded Friday afternoon when two Israeli shells landed near them as they were trying to cross the Lebanese border into the Israeli settlement of Metulla, Lebanon’s National News Agency said.

“The Israeli army went on alert, trying to prevent them from advancing towards the fence, which prompted the enemy to fire two shells towards the young men,” NNA added.

An Israeli airstrike overnight targeted a vehicle on the Syrian side of Lebanon’s border near the Lebanese town of Hermel, media reports said.

Al-Jadeed TV said a strong blast was heard at 3:30 am in the Syrian town of al-Jantaliyeh in Qusayr’s countryside after Israeli aircraft bombed a pickup truck.

Three rockets were fired Thursday from southern Lebanon toward Israel, Lebanese security officials said, amid an escalating fighting between Israel and the militant Palestinian Hamas group in Gaza.

The rockets were launched from the Qlayleh area north of Naqoura, near the border with Israel.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Wednesday called on all parties to “understand the seriousness of this period and what Lebanon is going through” in order to “stop this terrible collapse.”

Hariri’s appeal came in a tweet greeting Lebanese and Muslims on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.

Both President Michel Aoun and Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh have denied discussing the issue of Hizbullah’s controversial financial institution, al-Qard al-Hasan, in a meeting that they held in Baabda.

A statement issued by the Presidency said media reports that claimed the opposite were “baseless,” noting that the discussions tackled “the monetary situations in the country, the issue of the ration cards and the issue of subsidization.”

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday highlighted the necessity for all political forces in Lebanon to join "sincere" efforts in order to save Lebanon from its crises, the National News Agency reported.

On the latest Israeli aggression on Palestinians in Gaza City, Berri hoped that the Palestinian people would triumph and establish their independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.

Owners of two Turkish power-generating vessels off Lebanon’s shore, which supply the country with electricity, decided to stop their engines after a judicial order saying they must settle arrears.