Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced Friday that Israel is “cautious and worried about Lebanon” and “fears going to war.”

“Some might say that there is mutual deterrence but mutual deterrence is a victory for Lebanon,” Nasrallah noted in a televised speech marking Quds Day.

Acting Beirut First Investigative Judge Charbel Abu Samra on Friday interrogated the deputy head of the money changers union, Elie S., nine top money changers and a bank manager in the case of currency manipulation.

Lebanon on Friday confirmed 62 new COVID-19 coronavirus cases, which raises the tally of the past 48 hours to 125 and the overall count to 1,086, the Health Ministry said.

Seven flights repatriating Lebanese expats from abroad will land in Beirut on Friday, amid a major spike in the number of coronavirus cases, the National News Agency reported.

Speaker Nabih Berri made a rare televised speech on Friday calling on the crisis-hit Lebanon’s government to “make deeds not words,” and face the multiple crises crippling the country.

The municipality of Mazboud in Iqlim al-Kharroub declared a state of emergency on Friday over an increase in the number of coronavirus infections, the National News Agency reported.

After a dangerous spike in the number of coronavirus cases in Lebanon, Health Minister Hamad Hasan stressed the need to abide by safety measures, noting that a “14-day assessment” is expected when repatriation flights are concluded on Sunday, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

The Bekaa town of Majdal Anjar and the Iqlim al-Kharroub town of Mazboud were on Thursday ordered isolated by regional governors after they recorded 47 coronavirus cases in a single day.

Mount Lebanon Governor Mohammed Mekkawi ordered Mazboud's isolation after it recorses 15 infections, as Bekaa Governor Kamal Abu Jaoude ordered Majdal Anjar's isolation after he said 32 cases were recorded in the town.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Thursday urged parliament to approve a capital control draft law and another for recovering funds transferred abroad in a suspicious manner despite informal capital controls imposed by the banks.

Judge Faisal Makki on Thursday ordered the preventive freeze of the assets of MP Hadi Hbeish of al-Mustaqbal bloc in connection with the lawsuit filed against him by the Lebanese state and Judge Ghada Aoun.