A Lebanese Army post in the Wadi Khaled border town of al-Majdal was on Wednesday targeted by heavy gunfire from the Syrian town of al-Maajir, al-Jadeed TV said, after an Islamic State-linked fugitive was killed earlier in the day by Lebanese military intelligence agents.

President Michel Aoun on Wednesday reiterated the accusation that some parties are “manipulating the dollar exchange rate,” which has been fluctuating in recent days.

“Some are manipulating the financial issues and the dollar exchange rate, which is negatively reflecting on citizens, amid reports by local and international experts indicating the presence of sides seeking to aggravate the situation, some of whom are in power,” Aoun said.

The families of the capsized boat victims rallied Wednesday at Tripoli's port, where at least seven people tragically died in an overloaded people-smuggling boat, just three weeks before May 15 parliamentary elections.

The accident ignited widespread public anger, as rescue teams are still searching for dozens of survivors still missing at sea.

Protesters blocked several Beirut roads overnight and removed pictures of parliamentary elections candidates, reportedly over lengthy power cuts, as senior security sources described the move as politicized.

Media reports said hundreds of protesters, some of them on motorbikes, blocked the roads of Cola and the Sports City and smashed posters of parliamentary candidates.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has said, that anyone who supports Palestine would be besieged and subjected to sanctions.

"Everyone who belongs to this axis is subjected to sieges and penalties," Nasrallah said in a conference on Jerusalem, citing Lebanon and "other countries and resistance movements in the region."

The Minister for EU Affairs, The French Foreign Minister, the French Development Agency, and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre have signed an agreement to launch a joint €30 million fund in support of Lebanon.

The Saudi-French project will fund a series of humanitarian and development initiatives in crisis-hit Lebanon.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement Secretary-General Ahmed Hariri on Tuesday criticized remarks voiced by ex-PM Fouad Saniora, who is backing an electoral list in Beirut’s second electoral district.

“Your love and keenness on al-Mustaqbal Movement are not new, but the return to evaluating ex-PM Saad Hariri’s decision to suspend participation in elections as being part of the handover of the country to Hizbullah and Iran is something that resembles that campaigns targeted against our Movement and its leader,” Ahmed Hariri tweeted.

Cabinet decided Tuesday to establish a council for developing the North region, as it convened to discuss the tragic sinking of a boat off the northern port city of Tripoli.

The ministry of social affairs will contact international organizations to discuss offering aid to the families of the victims, Information Minister Ziad Makari said at the end of the session, adding that the military court will investigate the accident.

The Israeli army announced Tuesday that it seized weapons on the border with Lebanon, after having fired flares overnight over the border area.

“The army overnight detected suspects approaching the security fence from the Lebanese side and scrambled security forces to the location,” Israeli army Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a tweet.

Elie Haykal, the activist accused of assaulting the energy minister, turned himself in Tuesday to the Zouk Mosbeh police station.

State Security agents had earlier erected checkpoints across Zouk Mosbeh in a bid to arrest the man, as his lawyer sought to convince him to turn himself in, al-Jadeed TV reported.