Confusion arose among circles affiliated with Hizbullah after the party’s Al-Qard Al-Hasan financial institution was hacked, despite the institution's assurance the hackers had no access to any of the internal data or account numbers of depositors, the Saudi Asharq el-Awsat reported on Wednesday.

Sounds of heavy artillery shelling coming from inside the occupied Shebaa Farms was heard by villagers close to the Lebanese southern border, the National News Agency said on Wednesday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara el-Rahi reportedly plans to seek the Vatican’s assistance in launching an international initiative towards Lebanon, amid reports he is holding “great anger” against officials mainly the President, the PSP's al-Anbaa electronic magazine said Wednesday.

Israeli air strikes in Syria targeting the pro-Damascus Lebanese Hizbullah group and Syrian air defence forces killed one Syrian soldier and wounded five others, a war monitor said Wednesday.

Lebanon’s gasoline crisis has ended and the problem of bank credits is being resolved, a representative of the country’s fuel distributors said on Tuesday.

“Ships have started unloading their cargo,” Fadi Abu Shaqra said in a phone interview with the National News Agency.

Lebanon's outgoing premier Hassan Diab said Tuesday that an FBI investigation into the August 4 explosion at the Beirut port found it was caused by 500 tons of ammonium nitrate.

The caretaker prime minister, who resigned in the wake of the blast that killed more than 200 people, had previously said that more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer had been stored haphazardly at a port warehouse for years.

Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan announced Tuesday that authorities will not shut down Beirut’s airport or lock down the country after the holidays despite an expected spike in coronavirus cases.

“As for the debate over the issue of shutting down the country and the airport after the holidays, we say that as a result of the previous experiences, we have reached a conclusion that it is necessary to rein in pandemic outbreaks in areas where there exist specific numbers of infections,” Hassan said after talks with caretaker PM Hassan Diab.

Scuffles erupted Tuesday between student protesters and security forces outside the American University of Beirut on Bliss Street.

The National News Agency said security forces “pushed the protesters away from the university’s buildings after they tried to storm it.”

Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Tuesday said he was the first to open doors for investigation into the Beirut port blast, noting his “constant” calls during his time in office to fight corruption.

Head of the Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea on Tuesday met with U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy Shea at his residence in Maarab and discussed the political developments in Lebanon and the region.