Two Israeli Merkava tanks trespassed the technical fence in the town of Adaisseh without crossing the Blue Line, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Amid a looming fuel and diesel crisis, a group of protesters entered the General Directorate of Oil protesting a shortage of gasoline, pushing Lebanese to stand in queues at fuel stations.

“Smuggling fuel into Syria must be stopped. Officials are required to take a strict decision on this,” the protesters said.

The meeting between President Michel Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, and outgoing PM Hassan Diab on board the plane forth to Kuwait and back to Beirut again, did not produce a “magic bullet" for the government formation after the resignation of PM-designate Mustafa Adib, al-Akhbar daily reported on Tuesday.

At a stage open to all possibilities for “changing the system” in Lebanon, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called for a joint meeting of the parliamentary committees on Wednesday to study draft laws related to the parliamentary elections, al-Joumhouria daily said on Tuesday.

Upon Berri’s invitation, the joint session will be held for the committees of: Budget and Finance, Administration and Justice, National Defense, Interior and Municipalities, to study the following electoral draft law proposals:

President Michel Aoun will not sign decrees dismissing three officials charged in a probe into the August 4 Beirut port blast without a formal cabinet vote, his office said Monday.

The director of land and maritime transport, Abdel Hafiz Kaissi, the port's director-general Hassan Koraytem and customs chief Badri Daher, who is close to the president, are already in custody over the blast that killed more than 190 people and wounded at least 6,500 others.

Demonstrators on Monday blocked the vital Jal el-Dib highway in protest at plans by authorities to end the subsidization of essential goods.

Minor scuffles with army troops were recorded during the sit-in.

The relatives of ten firefighters killed in the Beirut port blast on Monday made a host of demands and requested answers to several questions, vowing escalation if authorities do not heed their grievances.

The families voiced their remarks at a press conference marking two months since the August 4 tragedy. The conference was attended by the lawyer Imad Martinos, who represented Beirut Bar Association chief Melhem Khalaf.

Lebanon's caretaker health minister said Monday said he fears increasing coronavirus cases in the country could reach European levels and urged more private hospitals to help prepare for any new deterioration.

The Mediterranean country had kept its numbers relatively low since its first case in February, but the easing up of measures this summer has set infection rates back on the rise.

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil was discharged from hospital Monday after a several-day stay for coronavirus treatment, his press office said.

“He headed to his house where he will continue quarantine and minor treatment for the next few days,” the press office added in a statement, noting that Bassil had finished the “main treatment.”

Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan warned on Monday that Lebanon has reached the peak of coronavirus phase 2, adding that only few intensive care beds are still unoccupied, the National News Agency reported.

"We are at the peak of phase 2, ICU beds are full and only a few beds remain vacant," Hassan said in televised remarks.