Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday slammed those who "fabricate cases," in reference to the measures that have been taken against Archbishop Moussa al-Hajj.

U.S. sea border demarcation mediator Amos Hochstein is preparing to return to Lebanon soon, specifically before the end of this month, senior diplomatic sources told al-Manar TV.

“The indications coming from U.S. Ambassador Dorothy Shea point to U.S. desire to reach an agreement over demarcation,” the sources added.

Ninety percent of the file of sea border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel has become finalized, al-Joumhouria newspaper quoted informed high-ranking sources as saying in remarks published Saturday.

A veteran diplomat meanwhile told the daily that “no war is expected to erupt in south Lebanon nor on other fronts in the region, because it would spiral out of everyone’s control, especially should it erupt on the southern front and spread to other fronts.”

President Michel Aoun is eagerly waiting to leave the Baabda Palace when his term ends and "then we will return to our nature away from the palace’s limitations," Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil said on Friday.

Archbishop Moussa al-Hajj had carried funds from Lebanese exiles in Israel that ended up in the hands of collaborator with Israel in Lebanon, a media report said on Friday.

“It seems that the military judiciary is pressing on with its decision to resume investigations over the recipients of the funds sent with the archbishop, especially that he was carrying a file containing names of convicted collaborators,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported.

The Lebanese prime minister on Friday warned that a massive grain silo risks collapse due to an ongoing fire that's expanding amid summer heat and humidity at the Beirut port where a devastating blast two years ago tore through the Mediterranean city.

A fire in one of the port's two silos has been smoldering for the past two weeks due to 800 tons of grain inside fermenting in the hot weather. The government said the fire expanded after flames reached nearby electrical cables.

Minister of Justice Henry Khoury met Friday with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi over the controversial detention and interrogation of Archbishop Mussa al-Hajj.

Khoury said that dismissing Judge Fadi Akiki is not within his powers as a minister.

State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat has said there are no political backgrounds to the search procedure that Archbishop Mussa al-Hajj had been subjected to in Naqoura, negating that Mussa had been arrested or offended.

"Judge Fadi Akiki has enforced the law," Oueidat told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, in remarks published Friday, as transporting products or money from Israel to Lebanon is illegal.

President Michel Aoun met Friday with Archbishop Mussa Al-Hajj who briefed him on the circumstances of his arrest in Naqoura as he was returning to Lebanon from the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Archbishop of the Archeparchy of Haifa and the Holy Land and Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem and Palestine and Jordan had been questioned for 12 hours earlier this week upon his return from Israel with large quantities of medicines, foodstuffs and canned goods, in addition to $460,000.

U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon Najat Rochdi stressed Friday the importance of protecting the most vulnerable populations, regardless of their nationality.

"Over the past weeks, public discussions over the return of Syrian refugees to Syria have increased in Lebanon. On behalf of the International Humanitarian Community and in my capacity as Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, I reiterate that the protection of refugees is a humanitarian and moral imperative and lies at the heart of all humanitarian actions," Rochdi said in a statement.