A Lebanese ministerial delegation led by caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib met Wednesday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to discuss earthquake relief efforts.

The delegation had earlier met with Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, expressing its "solidarity with the Syrian people in this plight" and noting that Lebanon "will offer its available capabilities to assist in the relief efforts," the National News Agency said.

Lebanese national Bassel Habkouk was pulled out Wednesday from the rubble of a destroyed hotel in the earthquake-hit Turkish city of Antakya amid ongoing efforts to rescue two more Lebanese citizens trapped under the debris.

Habkouk hails from the southern town of Maghdouche.

Several Lebanese nationals have been reported as missing in Turkey following the devastating earthquake there.

Lebanese Ambassador to Turkey Ghassan al-Muallem said the embassy is following up with Turkish authorities on the situation of five Lebanese who are “under the rubble.”

The Higher Judicial Council on Tuesday failed to convene over the port blast case due to lack of quorum.

Speaking to MTV, State Prosecutor Judge Ghassan Oueidat said he positively views the session’s postponement because he wants “the solution to come from (Council) Chief Judge Suheil Abboud.”

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati formed Tuesday a ministerial delegation that will head Wednesday to Syria to meet with Syrian authorities over the deadly earthquake.

Syrian state media and rescuers said at least 1,602 people have died in the earthquake and more than 3,600 have been injured across the country.

Lebanon's battered commercial banks on Tuesday closed their doors to customers in protest of a recent court ruling that forced one of the country's largest banks to pay out two of its depositors their trapped savings in cash.

The Association of Banks in Lebanon, which lobbies for the banks, released a statement calling the action an "open-ended strike" and criticized the court ruling, claiming it was detrimental to all depositors, because the banks cannot afford to pay out everyone else's savings in full.

A Lebanese Forces delegation led by MP Sethrida Geagea on Tuesday held talks in Bkirki with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

Speaking after the meeting, Geagea called for the election of a “sovereign, reformist president as soon as possible.”

The Lebanese Civil Defense announced Tuesday that it will send a team of twenty members to Syria to provide emergency relief to the populations on the ground after a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked southeastern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday.

The Lebanese Civil Defense members will participate in search and rescue operations.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday said “Hezbollah, today more than ever, wants to secure the election of its (presidential) candidate.”

“In its visits to independent MPs it is trying to collect votes, after having failed to convince (Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran) Bassil to elect (Marada Movement chief Suleiman) Franjieh,” Geagea said after a meeting for the Strong Republic bloc.

Residents in Lebanon on Monday felt a new 7.5-magnitude earthquake that jolted quake-hit Turkey.

The new tremor lasted for a few seconds in Lebanon, unlike the powerful overnight quake that lasted for 40 seconds and sent panicked residents onto the streets. The source of that tremor was a devastating and deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked southeast Turkey and northern Syria.