Fruit and vegetable seller Ismail Akkawi had no choice but to brave days of intermittent but deadly fighting in Lebanon's biggest Palestinian refugee camp in order to make ends meet.

The produce market at the heart of the restive Ain al-Helweh camp -- in the southern coastal city of Sidon -- is usually bustling with vendors, but few have ventured out since clashes broke out in the camp late Saturday.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab held talks Tuesday in Ain el-Tineh with Speaker Nabih Berri.

Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel has held responsible for the deadly clashes in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Helweh near Sidon.

Cabinet convene Tuesday to resume the discussion of the 2023 state budget.

Last month, the ministers received the budget draft law from the Finance Ministry and cabinet started successive sessions to discuss and approve it.

The date of a dialogue between different Lebanese parties over the presidential crisis has almost been confirmed, al-Joumhouria newspaper said.

French diplomatic sources told the daily, in remarks published tuesday, that it is almost confirmed that the dialogue will take place in early September.

Thousands of mourners have gathered in south Lebanon for the funeral of a Palestinian military general with the Fatah group, whose killing in a refugee camp in Lebanon fueled fierce sectarian street battles that have killed at least nine people.

Three days of clashes between Palestinian factions at the Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp have pitted members of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party against Islamist groups accused of gunning down the general, Abu Ashraf al Armoushi, on Sunday.

Three days of fighting in south Lebanon's Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp have left at least 11 dead and dozens wounded, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said on Monday.

Clashes broke out over the weekend between members of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah movement and Islamist militants based in the camp, Lebanon's largest located in the coastal city of Sidon.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea accused Monday Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement of dragging Lebanon into a growing crisis.

"Hezbollah doesn't believe in a state or belong to it, yet it wants to lay hold of the state to drain it and use it to serve its project," Geagea said.

The Finance and Budget Parliamentary Committee on Monday approved a law for establishing a Lebanese oil and gas sovereign fund.

Lebanon's embattled central bank governor stepped down Monday under a cloud of investigation and blame as tearful employees took photos and a band played celebratory music with drums and trumpets.

"The central bank has stood firm," Salameh told cheering employees in a video shared by local media. "During the crisis, it was a pillar that allowed Lebanon to carry on."