Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has pledged to pay $7.5 million out of the Primesouth’ overdue fees in return for an instant activation of the al-Zahrani and Deir Amar power plants "even if he has to pay for it out of his own pocket", al-Akhbar newspaper reported Friday.

Primesouth, the company that operates the al-Zahrani and Deir Amar power plants, resumed its services Thursday after a short outage.

French senator Nathalie Goulet slammed the French policy in Lebanon and Africa, as she criticized the French interference in the Lebanese affairs.

Goulet sarcastically described French envoy Jean Yves Le Drian as "spirited" and criticized him for sending questions to the Lebanese MPs, through the French embassy, about the required qualifications of their future president.

Four residents of the town of Kahale have been summoned for interrogation over the latest deadly clash with Hezbollah members, MTV reported.

“The four Kahale residents will not go to the Baabda intelligence department on Friday because they are demanding that those who killed Fadi Bejjani be handed over first,” the TV network added.

Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel has stressed that dialogue with Hezbollah would be futile as long as it “continues to insist on its candidate and on the approach of imposition, intimidation, weapons and murder.”

Parliament did not convene Thursday due to a lack of quorum as only 52 lawmakers showed up to attend a legislative session that was supposed to discuss several laws including the capital control law and the oil and gas sovereign fund draft law.

Meanwhile, demonstrators rallied outside parliament to protest the capital control law.

Primesouth, the company that operates the al-Zahrani and Deir Amar power plants, resumed its services Thursday after a deal with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, media reports said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Thursday denied a media report claiming that he has met with Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh. Bassil also stressed that he is still committed to the “intersection” with the opposition over Jihad Azour’s nomination.

UNRWA said Thursday it has received alarming reports that armed actors continue to occupy its installations including a school compound in Ain el-Helweh Palestine refugee camp in the South of Lebanon.

UNRWA facilities have reportedly been damaged by the recent fighting in the camp. The compound has four UNRWA schools that normally provide education to 3,200 Palestine Refugee children.

The operator of the Deir Amar and al-Zahrani power plants, Primesouth, will hand over the facilities to the state-run Electricite du Liban at 5pm Wednesday, which would lead to a shutdown of the national grid, al-Jadeed TV reported.

Caretaker Justice Minister Henri Khoury on Wednesday asked the public prosecution to act against “all those mentioned in the forensic audit report submitted by the Alvarez & Marsal firm.”

“It turned out that there are major financial violations that require an instant investigation,” Khoury said.