Energy Minister Walid Fayyad was physically assaulted by activists outside a restaurant on Sunday night.

A Katyusha rocket was fired Sunday night towards northern Israel from the southern Lebanese area of Ras al-Ain south of the city of Tyre, Lebanese media reports said.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday urged a fast probe into the Tripoli boat tragedy, stressing that “no one should be allowed to plunge the country into strife.”

“All of the elements of the investigation are known and hurrying up in the probe is the least duty that one can do,” Nasrallah said in a speech marking Ramadan’s Qadr Night.

Violent protests engulfed Tripoli on Sunday in connection with the deadly sinking of a migrant boat off the city overnight.

Survivors accused the army of deliberately ramming a navy vessel into the ill-fated boat, as the military said a collision occurred as the migrant boat's captain was carrying out escape maneuvers.

Ex-PM Saad Hariri on Sunday described testimonies by survivors of a migrant boat that capsized off Tripoli as “dangerous,” demanding a swift probe, after some of those who were on the boat accused the Lebanese navy of deliberately sinking their vessel.

The Lebanese Army said Sunday that a boat that capsized off Tripoli was conducting escape "maneuvers" when it "collided" with a Lebanese army vessel, after some survivors accused the navy of deliberately ramming the boat.

Several survivors had told local TV stations that the Lebanese navy is to blame for the incident. They said a military ship rammed their migrant boat twice, damaging it, in an effort to force it to return to the coast.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat asked Saturday for the dismissal of Energy Minister Walid Fayyad.

In a tweet Jumblat said "it is time to dismiss the minister", sarcastically accusing him of wandering through capitals, restaurants and nightclubs.

Energy Minister Walid Fayyad noted Thursday that the World Bank has not refused to finance Lebanon’s U.S.-backed plan for importing gas and electricity from Egypt and Jordan via Syria, adding that the Bank is still studying the plan’s “political feasibility.”

“The contract with Jordan has been signed, but it needs to be ratified by Cabinet. The contract was signed and we did our duty, but the delay lies in financing,” Fayyad said.

Judge Nicolas Mansour, first investigating judge at the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal, ordered on Thursday the seizure of all the assets of Riad Salameh's brother, Raja.

The memo was sent to the ministry of finance through the public prosecution.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Thursday slammed the rival Lebanese Forces party as a “militia” that wants to “impose its conditions on the Foreign Ministry” in the distribution of polling stations abroad.

“Everyone knows and acknowledges the effort that the Foreign Ministry has exerted to facilitate expat voting, from increasing the number of polling centers from 116 to 205 and polling stations from 232 to 598, in conjunction with putting a unified standard for all countries, which turned every polling center into a megacenter comprising polling stations for all of Lebanon’s electoral districts,” Bassil said in a tweet.