Scores of protesters blocked major roads across Lebanon on Monday to express anger against the country's political class for the worsening economic crisis and harsh living conditions.

The road closures with burning tires were mainly in the capital Beirut, the northern city of Tripoli, the southern port city of Sidon, the eastern Bekaa valley and the Zouk highway.

President Michel Aoun met Monday with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, who affirmed Qatar’s support for Lebanon and said “Qatar is ready to help Lebanon in all fields,” the Presidency said.

Sheikh Tamim said that the Qatari foreign minister will soon visit Lebanon “to offer aid and support,” the Presidency added.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Sunday noted that “there is no Iranian occupation of Lebanon,” as he lashed out at political rivals and Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lauded the latest decision by the Court of Cassation on the flurry of lawsuits and legal motions that had paralyzed the probe into the catastrophic Beirut port blast.

Hizbullah central council member Sheikh Nabil Qaouq on Sunday stressed that his party is supporting efforts aimed at resolving the governmental crisis and resuming Cabinet sessions.

Health Minister Firass Abiad has reassured that “Lebanon has no direct flights from South Africa or neighboring countries,” in remarks regarding the new, heavily mutated Covid-19 strain Omicron.

There are “no positive indications” regarding any breakthrough in the governmental crisis, and “everything that has been said in this regard is nothing more than hypotheses that are not based on serious foundations,” political officials said.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday decried anew the presence of what he called selectivity and politicization in the Beirut port blast probe as well as in the judiciary’s response to legal motions filed by the accused ex-PM and former ministers.

Higher Judicial Council chief Judge Suheil Abboud has rejected the resignations of the judges Jeanette Hanna, Carla Kassis and Rola al-Husseini, al-Jadeed TV reported on Friday.

The judges had submitted the resignations to the Council on Thursday, as reports said the move aimed at protesting political interference in the judiciary.

President Michel Aoun has promised to let the competent Judiciary set up the legal mechanism to the Baabda meeting decisions, a parliamentary source told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Miqati had agreed in a meeting they held in Baabda, on Independence day, to refer the ex-ministers charged with negligence over Beirut port blast to the Higher Council for the Trial of Presidents and Ministers instead of them being interrogated by judge Tarek Bitar.