Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh said that one hundred bank accounts related to Hizbullah have been frozen in accordance with a U.S. law that threatens to sanction anyone who finances the group.

Salameh assured in a interview to CNBC on Wednesday that “the central bank is determined to maintain the country's financial stability, and make sure that the U.S. law is implemented.”

Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb issued a decision banning the entry of vegetable and fruit produce from Syria to Lebanon to “protect Lebanon's production,” which triggered negative responses from the Syrian side, As Safir daily reported on Thursday.

“We want to protect the Lebanese farmers and their produce in the face of the inflow of Syrian products, mainly during the month of Ramadan,” said Shehayyeb.

The cabinet met on Thursday and decided to postpone the discussions on the thorny file of the Janna Valley dam until the next session, Information Minister Ramzi Jreij said.

The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Tammam Salam who reiterated the necessity to elect a president “because vacuum is reflecting on the state institutions, the parliament and cabinet, and harms national interest” he was quoted as saying.

Unknown assailants tossed a grenade in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

The grenade was tossed at dawn into the Taytaba neighborhood and was followed by heavy gunshots.

Speaker Nabih Berri expressed annoyance at the joint committees dead stop and inability to agree on a new parliamentary electoral law and stated a belief that some lawmakers want to invoke the 1960 law in the coming polls, As Safir daily reported on Wednesday.

“The meetings of the joint parliamentary committees to discuss the election law did not yield any results yet. It is still at a standstill,” Berri told his visitors according to the daily.

Lebanese banks have practically begun implementing the U.S. law against Hizbullah, which imposed financial sanctions on the party and its institutions, informed sources told the daily al-Akhbar on Wednesday.

The sources said that the bank accounts of several Hizbullah institutions, including The Emdad Committee for Islamic Charity, the Martyr's Foundation and the St. George Hospital have been closed, including hundreds or maybe thousands of other accounts.

The Internal Security Forces arrested several individuals in Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik after shooting firearms into the air during a funeral, an ISF statement said on Tuesday.

“During a funeral ceremony in the neighborhood of Haret Hreik near al-Musharrafiyeh some civilians fired arms into the air,” said the statement.

French President Francois Hollande told al-Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri that the only solution to the presidential impasse is through the election of founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun, al-Akhbar daily reported on Tuesday.

“During Hariri's latest visit to France in May, Hollande told the Mustaqbal chief that the solution to the internal crisis can only come from Aoun's side,” March 14 sources told the daily on condition of anonymity.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri is expected to launch a series of positions during the Ramadan iftar banquets at the Center House, mainly after the fiery statements of Interior Minister Nouahd al-Mashnouq, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Hariri's stances will be the first since Mashnouq declared in a televised interview that Saudi Arabia was behind his nomination of Marada chief MP Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency. The stance was deeply resented by Hariri according to sources close to the ex-PM.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim warned Monday that stability in the country is in a “critical situation,” citing the regional conflicts, the presidential void and the threats at the eastern, northern and southern borders.