A session to interrogate ex-MP Fares Soaid was postponed Monday, due to a strike by judicial assistants.

The session was scheduled for today after Hizbullah filed a lawsuit against Soaid, because of a tweet that Hizbullah said “stirred sectarian sentiments and civil war.”

Three people were killed and ten others wounded Sunday in an armed clash at the al-Bourj al-Shamali Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, al-Jadeed TV said.

The TV network said the clash, between the Islamist Hamas Movement and the secular Fatah Movement, broke out during the funeral of Hamas member Hamza Ibrahim Shahine, who was killed in Friday's blasts at the camp.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Sunday called on the defense and interior ministries to explain the circumstances of Friday’s explosions at the Palestinian refugee camp of al-Bourj al-Shamali.

“We want the official and complete account of events for the blast that went off Friday at the al-Bourj al-Shamali camp in the city of Tyre so that we react accordingly,” Geagea said in a tweet.

Energy Minister Walid Fayyad traveled Sunday to Paris on an official visit during which he will meet with top officials in the energy, electricity and water sectors, state-run National News Agency reported.

“He will also meet with a number of officials at French electricity company EDF, the French Development Agency (AFD), which is funding several water and sewage projects, and the Total (Energies) firm, which is working on (offshore oil and gas) blocks 4 and 9,” NNA added.

Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut Elias Aude on Sunday slammed the parties who are attempting to “conceal the truth and the criminals” in the Beirut port blast case, at a mass marking the 16th anniversary of the assassination of Gebran Tueni.

“It is no longer acceptable for the government to remain paralyzed in its decisions and actions nor to remain subject to a political minority that acts as the ruling majority,” Aude quoted Tueni as saying prior to his assassination.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lashed out at “those who are using their political influence to obstruct Cabinet meetings and the course of the judicial investigation into the port blast disaster.”

“We cannot accept a government that paralyzes itself. Are obstructors testing what the reactions would be should they later decided to block parliamentary and presidential elections?” al-Rahi wondered in his Sunday Mass sermon.

France is exerting efforts to resolve the obstacles that are preventing Cabinet from convening and French presidential envoy Pierre Duquesne is expected to arrive in Beirut in the coming hours, media reports said.

MP Asaad Dergham of the Free Patriotic Movement-led Strong Lebanon bloc meanwhile told the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal that Duquesne’s visit comes as “continuation of the French initiative aimed at helping Lebanon overcome its crises,” hailing “the strenuous efforts that French President Emmanuel Macron is making in this regard.”

Security forces in Lebanon and Syria said Saturday that they had seized two separate shipments of the banned stimulant captagon, the latest in a string of similar busts.

The Palestinian Hamas group said Saturday that explosions that shook a refugee camp in southern Lebanon were caused by an electrical short-circuit in a storage area for oxygen bottles used to treat coronavirus patients.

Later in the day however, a Lebanese security official said that the explosion in the camp was clearly ammunition -- not oxygen bottles. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, did not elaborate.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati announced Saturday in a tweet that he lauds the latest Gulf tour of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.