The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday designated three “Hizbullah-linked financial facilitators and their Lebanon-based travel company,” the Treasury said in a statement.

Specifically, OFAC designated Adel Diab, Ali Mohamad Daoun, Jihad Salem Alame, and their company, Dar Al Salam for Travel & Tourism.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati held talks Tuesday at the Baabda Palace with President Michel Aoun.

Mount Lebanon Attorney General Judge Ghada Aoun on Tuesday issued a no disposal note for all real state properties and vehicles belonging to Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh.

A depositor armed with an assault weapon and a hand grenade took dozens of employees and clients hostage at a Jeb Jannine bank on Tuesday, the National News Agency said.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati will call for a Cabinet session on Monday, MP Ali Darwish, a member of Miqati’s bloc, said.

He added that the state budget will be discussed in Cabinet next Wednesday or Thursday.

Interior Minister Bassam al-Mawlawi on Monday stressed that the hole that was discovered in a plane belonging to Greece’s Aegean Airlines did not happen in Beirut.

Dozens of Lebanese, including families of Beirut port explosion victims, rallied Monday outside the Justice Palace in support of Judge Tarek Bitar after he was forced to suspend his work as a lead investigator into the Beirut port blast.

Protesters held portraits of their loved ones who died in the explosion.

As part of the Emergency Response Plan (ERP), fourteen NGO projects funded under the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund (LHF) will start this month providing Child Protection (CP), Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and Education assistance for those most vulnerable populations affected by the ongoing multi-faceted crisis in Lebanon, the U.N. said in a statement.

"Media reports that the United States has brokered an energy deal between Israel and Lebanon are false," the U.S. State Department tweeted.

Israeli Channel 12 news had said that the U.S. had brokered an agreement for Israel to indirectly supply natural gas to Lebanon through Jordan and Syria.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati denied Monday the presence of a bargain with the families of the port victims, in return for Cabinet meetings' resumption.

Miqati's media office negated in a statement that the Prime Minister had coordinated with the families of the victims to file new lawsuits against lead investigator into the case Judge Tarek Bitar.