Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown price and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman has said that the kingdom does not look at Israel as an “enemy,” as he called for “coexistence” between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

“For us, we hope that the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is solved. We don't look at Israel as an enemy, we look to them as a potential ally, with many interests that we can pursue together. But we have to solve some issues before we get to that,” Bin Salman said in an interview with U.S. magazine The Atlantic, according to an English-language transcript published by the official Saudi news agency SPA.

The Interior Ministry has confirmed in a study requested by Prime Minister Najib Miqati that it will be impossible to use voting megacenters in the May 15 parliamentary elections, citing legal, logistic and financial difficulties.

Miqati had requested the study following a letter from President Michel Aoun, who has described the megacenters plan as necessary.

A senior delegation from the U.S. Department of the Treasury concluded a three-day visit to Lebanon on Wednesday.

The delegation met with members of the Lebanese government, civil society, and the banking sector to reiterate the U.S. government’s “commitment to stand with the Lebanese people during this time of economic turmoil,” the Treasury said in a statement.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday revealed his party’s tactics for the upcoming parliamentary elections and the names of Hizbullah’s candidates, the majority of whom are current MPs.

“In some districts, we will be on the same lists with allies and friends, and in other districts we might be on two lists under an agreement based on electoral interest,” Nasrallah said in a televised address dedicated to the issue of elections.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Wednesday noted that “the colonialist and expansionist West has no unified standards or values.”

“International institutions are a big lie,” Jumblat added in a tweet.

A plane carrying 40 Lebanese students, who had been trapped in Ukraine, arrived Wednesday morning at Beirut's airport.

The Higher Relief Committee had earlier announced their arrival in a statement.

The KfW Development Bank and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) have signed an agreement to rehabilitate damaged municipal infrastructure and assets in the areas affected by the Beirut Port explosion in the next 3 years.

"With the support from the Federal Republic of Germany through the KfW Development Bank, UNOPS will rehabilitate damaged public service buildings and public spaces and restore critical urban services including roads, storm and wastewater networks and provide solar energy solutions in the municipalities of Beirut and Bourj Hammoud," UNOPS said, in a press release.

President Michel Aoun tweeted Wednesday that the Presidency "should not be targeted," adding that he regrets the "ignorance" of many Lebanese about the constitution.

"A large number of Lebanese officials and medias, who are ignorant of the constitution, are making harmful statements against the president," Aoun said.

Head of Hizbullah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammed Raad warned Tuesday that some consider “the person who cooperated with the Israeli invasion in 1982” to be “the qualified and eligible candidate for the presidential post,” in apparent jab at Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea.

“They want to return us to the Israeli era after we got rid of it. Their arrogance has reached this extent!” Raad added.

President Michel Aoun met Tuesday a delegation from the U.S. Treasury, in Baabda.

"Lebanon will continue to combat corruption, money laundering and terror financing operations," Aoun told the delegation.