-- IMF: Lebanon faces challenges due to the coronavirus and the current financial and economic crisis; the Lebanese authorities have inquired about the possibility of emergency financing, but have not formally requested any funding from the IMF.

-- IDF AF drones are reported over Dahyeh, Beirut as of 6:30 am.

-- Diab: I can guarantee that 98 percent of bank deposits will not be affected.

-- Breaking: Lebanon PM Hassan Diab announces the govt has began talking to the IMF, who responded positively to the govt's plan.

He says govt will preserve the rights of Lebanese while seeking aid from international institutions.

-- Breaking: Lebanon PM Hassan Diab announces LL1,200 billion ($400 million at market rate) in aid for daily workers, agricultural workers, small industries and others to help deal with economic crisis and coronavirus effects.

-- Diab: We have started discussing a plan to boost the economy, but we will not rush any step at the expense of citizens' health.

-- Haircut will touch accounts +500K$.

-- Former PM Saad Hariri has arrived at the Center House after being abroad for a while.

-- Instead of giving people their money, the central bank is giving fresh dollar bills to exchange offices to allegedly decrease the exchange rate.

It's one of the days when I wonder if we have an economist as our central bank governor or a shepherd.

-- A large number of people staged a sit-in in Al-Nour Square to protest against the economic and living conditions.

-- IDF is throwing flares over the Lebanese - Palastinian border after it suspected the presence of someone on the fence.

-- The Zionist army fired at least 7 flares over Mays Al Jabal.

-- The scene from tonight's limited protests in Tripoli.

-- IDF just fired extra flares over Honin and Marakaba villages inside Lebanon.

-- This recent event does not mean there is something serious happening, IDF tends to get paranoid at night.

-- Salim Sfeir to MTV: When the State returns its borrowed money, we will then have liquidity; the solution is to sell state property with money from abroad.

Mr Salim, no we don't want to sell the Lebanese government so billionaires can buy it like they did post the civil war. We prefer selling the banks and their properties and the properties of all politicians who accumulated money from abusing the system.

-- Metula security says a hole was found in the fence of the eastern side of the town, citizens ordered to stay away from the area between Weiss Grove and HaTahana Fall.

IDF is suspecting it has something to do with what they did two days ago on the Lebanese Syrian border. The assassination attempt of a senior Hezbullah commander.