Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan on Wednesday called for “preserving people’s deposits and savings,” stressing that “the solutions for the financial and economic crisis should not be at the expense of depositors and their lifelong savings.”

The solutions “should be at the expense of those who plunged the country into the current deterioration at all levels,” the Mufti added.

The army announced Wednesday the arrest of an Amal Movement supporter who had opened fire Saturday from a handgun during a violent protest against a rival electoral rally in the southern city of Sarafand.

“A patrol from the Intelligence Patrol has arrested in the Sidon town of Sarafand the citizen A. Kh. for opening fire in the air in the aforementioned town during a protest by a number of the town’s residents against the announcement of an electoral list,” an army statement said.

President Michel Aoun expressed Wednesday his support for Palestinians and Jerusalemites, after a weekend of violence in Jerusalem.

"The systematic attacks of the Israeli occupation forces on al-Aqsa Mosque will not change the identity of the Holy City," Aoun said.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday announced that the LF will call on parliament to withdraw confidence from Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib over accusations related to the distribution of polling stations abroad.

“We will call for withdrawing confidence from the foreign minister based on what he is doing in the expat voting file,” Geagea said.

A session on capital control was adjourned Wednesday, as the Lebanese Forces and Free Patriotic Movement's MPs refused to discuss the draft law.

Depositors and activists had rallied since morning outside Parliament to prevent MPs from attending the session held by the joint parliamentary committees, as they considered that the law will deprive depositors from their rights.

Depositors and activists rallied Wednesday outside Parliament to prevent MPs from attending a session on capital control held by the joint parliamentary committees.

Some protestors kicked the car of Deputy Speaker Elie Ferzli and threw stones at it, media reports said.

The motive behind the killing of the pharmacist Layla Rizk in her drugstore in Mrouj on Monday was not theft, Interior Minister Bassam al-Mawlawi said on Tuesday.

CCTV “cameras have led to some threads,” Mawlawi added from Bkirki, noting that “the criminal will soon be brought to justice.”

The Syrian embassy in Lebanon on Tuesday denied interfering in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, stressing its “respect for Lebanon’s sovereignty.”

“Some sides are continuing to promote claims about ‘political and security interferences by the Syrian embassy’ in the anticipated Lebanese parliamentary juncture,” the embassy said in a statement, describing the allegations as “attempts to reverse facts and fabricate enemies.”

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Tuesday reassured that authorities have no plans to “eliminate depositors’ rights or undermine the banking sector.”

“The government’s priority in its economic approach is to preserve depositors’ rights and not to waste them,” Miqati told a delegation from the Association of Banks in Lebanon.

Three people were killed and two others injured in a huge blaze Tuesday at a tubs factory in the Fanar neighborhood of Zaaitriye, the National News Agency said.

“Red Cross and Civil Defense crews are still inspecting the site in search of possible victims,” NNA added.