Hizbullah said overnight it had downed and seized an Israeli drone as it flew over the Lebanese border.

"Earlier today, during IDF operational activity along the Blue Line, an IDF drone fell in Lebanese territory," the Israeli army for its part said.

Relief efforts arrived to Lebanon on Saturday this time coming from Italy, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

An Italian military ship loaded with medical equipment and food products arrived in support of those affected by the Beirut port explosion.

Judicial investigator into the Beirut port blast Judge Fadi Sawan issued two new arrest warrants on Friday, the National News Agency reported.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon shared a video on Saturday with media outlets in which the STL Spokesperson talked about the importance and relevance of the Judgment in the Ayyash et al. case.

A two-week partial lockdown and nighttime curfew kicked off Friday in Lebanon after coronavirus cases increased sharply following an explosion in Beirut that killed and injured thousands of people.

A second team of UK-aid funded medics have flown to Lebanon Friday to help tackle coronavirus in hospitals affected by the explosion, the UK embassy said in a press release Saturday.

Credit ratings agency S&P on Friday downgraded more Lebanese government debt issues after missed payments, citing the country's worsening economic crisis following the devastating explosion in Beirut earlier this month.

Beirut is still bidding farewell to the victims of the port explosion that shook the city two weeks ago, the last of which was firefighter Joe Bou Saab and 15-year-old Elias El-Khoury, Asharq el-Awsat newspaper reported Friday.

Bou Saab was laid to rest Friday, while Khoury succumbed to his wounds on Thursday.

Hizbullah's emphatic defence of the political status quo in Lebanon has exposed it since the deadly Beirut blast to levels of public contempt and anger it was once shielded from.

Health Minister Hamad Hassan is set to lead a crisis cell meeting on coronavirus on Friday, after remarks that Lebanon made an agreement with the World Health Organization to reserve Lebanon’s share of a possible Russian COVID-19 vaccine.