Funerals were held across northern Lebanon on Monday for seven people killed when a boat packed with migrants sunk over the weekend as the Lebanese navy tried to force it back to shore.

The small vessel was carrying nearly 60 people -- many times its capacity -- when the disaster struck on Saturday night. The tragedy was the latest in a growing trend involving mostly Lebanese and Syrians trying to travel to Europe from Lebanon in search of better lives.

UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have said that they are “deeply saddened by the latest tragic incident at sea in which a boat reportedly carrying 84 people capsized off the coast of Tripoli, Lebanon, yesterday.”

Lebanese rescue teams searched the Mediterranean for survivors Monday after an overloaded people-smuggling boat capsized while under pursuit by naval forces, with dozens unaccounted for still missing at sea.

Israeli tanks fired into southern Lebanon early Monday in response to a rocket fired from the country, the Israeli military said.

In a statement, the Israeli army said the rocket landed in an open area in northern Israel early Monday, causing no damage or injuries. Shortly after, the military said it struck "the sources of the projectile launched and an infrastructure target in southern Lebanon." It said "routine activity" in northern Israel was continuing and there were no special precautions being asked of civilians in the area.

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.