Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has stressed that he “will not request the extension of the term of Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh nor the appointment of a successor,” because he does not want to “deepen the rift between the Lebanese.”

“The solution for filling the vacuum in the Central Bank governorship upon the expiry of Salameh’s term is the implementation of the law that allows his deputy (Wassim) Mansouri to carry out his missions,” Mikati said in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper published Monday.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib on Monday met in Beirut with UNIFIL chief Maj. Gen. Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz amid tensions with Israel on the southern border.

“We discussed the security situations in the South and they relayed to us the Israeli side’s demand that the tent (that Israel says Hezbollah erected in Israeli territory) be removed. Our response was that we want them to retreat from northern Ghajar, which is considered Lebanese territory,” Bou Habib said after the talks.

A Lebanese depositor broke into BML bank in Beirut on Monday to demand his trapped savings.

After storming the bank, Omar al-Awar held the branch manager hostage until he received his entire savings, a sum of $6500.

Change MPs Melhem Khalaf, Najat Aoun, Elias Jradi and Firas Hamdan will head Sunday to the Ghajar village “that is besieged by the Israeli enemy,” they said in a statement.

A U.N. envoy of American nationality who is in charge of the Israeli file at the United Nations will visit Lebanon to carry out discussions related to the developments on Lebanon’s southern border, diplomatic sources said.

French presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian is preparing to visit Riyadh on July 11 as part of a tour of the nations of the five-party committee for Lebanon, highly informed sources said, in remarks to Nidaa al-Watan newspaper.

A gunman opened fire Friday at a mosque in eastern Lebanon, killing one person and wounding several others, the Lebanese army and state news agency said. The reason behind the shooting in the eastern town of Bar Elias was not immediately clear.

The Lebanese army issued a statement saying that the armed man opened fire at a group of people as they were leaving the mosque, killing one of them. It added that as troops tried to detain the gunman, he opened fire at the force whose members fired back and wounded him. The army said he was being held in a hospital.

Hezbollah has told the relevant parties that it is against the appointment of a new central bank governor by the current caretaker Cabinet, media reports said.

Moreover, the party will not attend any Cabinet session aimed at naming a successor to outgoing Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh and it is in favor of the first vice governor assuming Salameh’s missions when the latter’s term expires on July 31, the reports said.

Hezbollah has learned about a "suspicious diplomatic" drive aiming to demarcate land borders between Lebanon and Israel, ad-Diyar newspaper reported Friday.

The land demarcation has been discussed with Lebanese officials in foreign capitals during several meetings, the daily claimed.

The MPs of the northern National Moderation Bloc have given the government two months to give an answer regarding the reopening of the Qlayaat airport – currently a military airbase – to civil aviation.

“We have given the government a two-month deadline. If the answer turns out to be positive, we will salute it, but if it comes out negative, we are preparing for major popular protests,” MP Walid al-Baarini said in an interview with the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper.