The state-run Zahrani Oil Installations overnight started pumping five million liters of fuel oil on loan to the Zahrani power plant through the supply line that connects them, a day after Lebanon’s state utility Electricité du Liban announced that its power plants had exhausted their supply of fuel oil and would stop producing electricity.

In a statement, the Installations director general said the process started after “completing all the administrative, technical and legal files,” adding that EDL’s board of directors would meet Sunday and issue a statement announcing when the power plant would become functional.

Lebanese Muay Thai fighter Omar El Halabi won the Bangkok crowd despite losing to surging Thai star Kompet Fairtex at ONE Championship’s show ONE Friday Fights 75.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday accused the caretaker government of committing “high treason” due to “what’s happening in the south.

Hezbollah has issued a statement commemorating the end of the 2006 war with Israel, saying it would continue "to defend Lebanon" despite "ongoing Israeli threats and assassinations."

Hezbollah's deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem meanwhile said that U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein's visit Wednesday to Lebanon was "for show," although Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, expressed relief over the visit.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said that U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein's visit to Lebanon on Wednesday has created "positivities that can be capitalized on."

Seventeen people were wounded, four of them critically, when an Israeli airstrike targeted the intersection of the southern town of al-Abbasiyeh near Tyre on Wednesday, the Health Ministry said.

Another strike meanwhile targeted a house in the southern border town of Rab Tlatine.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Wednesday stressed to visiting U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein “the need to press Israel to halt its attacks and threats,” noting that “the gateway for the solution is a ceasefire in Gaza and the implementation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, especially Resolution 1701.”

Visiting U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein warned Wednesday that the clock was ticking for a Gaza ceasefire that would also end 10 months of cross-border exchanges between Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel.

Hochstein told a Beirut news conference that he and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, discussed "the framework agreement that's on the table for a Gaza ceasefire, and he and I agreed there is no more time to waste and there's no more valid excuses from any party for any further delay."

Lebanese Muay Thai star Omar El Halabi is set to compete in the main event of martial arts event ONE Friday Fights 75 this Friday, August 16.

El Halabi faces Thai opponent Kompet Fairtex in a Catchweight (57.6 Kg) Muay Thai contest at Bangkok’s iconic Lumpinee Stadium in the 75th installment of ONE Championship’s weekly fight series.

A Hezbollah lawmaker on Tuesday said that his group’s objective from the Lebanon front against Israel is to “press the enemy to halt the aggression against Gaza.”