MP Ali Ammar of Hizbullah's parliamentary bloc on Friday voiced appreciation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and said that Hizbullah is not “fond of killing and weapons.”

“When I read the government's Policy Statement I felt that it rises to the level of national responsibility in its best form,” Ammar said in parliament during a session to debate the Policy Statement.

MP Hassan Fadlallah of Hizbullah's parliamentary bloc on Friday announced that “there are manipulated and missing documents” that could land some ex-PMs in jail.

“There is a 2007 grant worth $10 million and its documents are missing according to auditors,” Fadlallah said ahead of a parliamentary session for debating the new government's Policy Statement.

The head of Hizbullah's parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, on Friday apologized on behalf of the bloc over remarks voiced Wednesday by MP Nawwaf al-Moussawi.

“An undesired debate erupted between some colleagues in the previous session and entailed rejected remarks that were voiced by one of our brothers in the bloc,” Raad said, describing Moussawi's statements as “a personal reaction that exceeded limits.”

Speaker Nabih Berri on Friday praised as “moderate” the speech delivered by Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Thursday marking the 14th assassination anniversary of his slain father ex-PM Rafik Hariri.

Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel lashed out at Hizbullah’s "illegal" arms on Friday, and invited the party to hand its weapons to President Michel Aoun after Hizbullah’s remarks that it “got him to be President.”

Interior Minister Raya al-Hassan stressed on Friday that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon investigating the assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri is carrying out its tasks as she emphasized determination for getting the truth.

Unknown assailants hurled a petrol bomb overnight at the Kataeb party’s office in the vicinity of Mirna Chalouhi center in the neighborhood of Sin el-Fil, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Thursday stressed that he and his political movement will always remain the “guardians” of the 1989 Taef Accord, which ended Lebanon’s civil war, as he emphasized that he will not accept to “hand over” the Syrian refugees to Damascus “as hostages.”

“Today, we gather, 14 years after the assassination crime, and 11 years after the start of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. The dream of Rafik Hariri is still with us after all these years and his reconstruction, development and stability project is still being mentioned by each Lebanese who wants to see the country full of work,” said Hariri at Beirut’s Seaside Arena in a speech marking the 14th anniversary of the assassination of his father, ex-PM Rafik Hariri.

A Lebanese man on Thursday crossed the Blue Line into Israel, the Lebanese Army and the National News Agency said.

Identifying the man as Jihad Ahmed Shebli Saleh, the army said the man crossed from the outskirts of the Lebanese town of Aita al-Shaab and that the issue was being followed up in coordination with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

A small plane that crashed in the west of Kenya killed all five people on board including two Lebanese-American, a mother and her son, media reports said Thursday.

According to preliminary information, the Lebanese victims were identified as Cynthia Sh.S and her son Karl R.