The Internal Security Forces detained on Monday a gunman, who along with another accomplice opened fire at the office of al-Mustaqbal movement MP Mohammed Kabbara in the northern city of Tripoli, Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported.

Kabbara confirmed to VDL the attack, saying the security forces opened an investigation into the incident that occurred at dawn Sunday.

Tashnag party and Marada movement sources stressed on Monday that they would support the decisions taken by the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc.

In remarks to An Nahar daily on Monday, the Tashnag sources said the party is committed to any decision taken by the bloc.

Speaker Nabih Berri said on Monday that he isn’t worried about the fate of the cabinet, stressing that the Lebanese should resolve the crisis on their own by taking responsibility and without depending on any foreign assistance.

“The outside is busy” trying to resolve other issues, Berri told As Safir newspaper.

Ministers loyal to Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun have stressed that they would boycott a cabinet session set to discuss the funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Wednesday unless Premier Najib Miqati meets their demands.

“No solution can salvage the government if the Change and Reform bloc’s clear requests are not met,” Energy Minister Jebran Bassil told As Safir daily published Monday.

Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel on Sunday accused the Free Patriotic Movement of obstructing the functioning of state institutions, noting that the opposition March 14 camp was only interested in seeing the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon being funded by Premier Najib Miqati’s government.

In an interview with Al-Jadeed television, Gemayel warned that “we don’t have time to enter a power impasse because the international community, the (U.N.) Security Council and the (Special) Tribunal (for Lebanon) will not wait for us.”

A teenager died on Sunday in the northern region of Akkar following a row between pro- and anti-Syrian partisans, a security official said, as the Mustaqbal Movement held a mass rally in the nearby city of Tripoli to denounce the Syrian regime and its Lebanese ally Hizbullah.

Mohammad al-Mawla, 14, from the Sunni Muslim village of Sheikh Ayash, died in hospital of injuries sustained when he and another villager were run over by a car driven by a man from a nearby Alawite village, the official, who requested anonymity, told Agence France Presse.

Tens of thousands of supporters of the opposition gathered Sunday in the northern city of Tripoli to denounce the Syrian regime and its Lebanese ally Hizbullah, under the slogan “The Fall of Weapons, The Spring of Independence.”

The rally organized by the Mustaqbal Movement, the main opposition party headed by ex-premier Saad Hariri, came amid mounting tension over the financing of the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the revolt in neighboring Syria.

Head of the Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc, ex-PM Fouad Saniora, on Sunday called on Premier Najib Miqati to “implement what the people are demanding” and pay Lebanon’s 49 percent annual share of funds to the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

Delivering a speech on behalf of ex-PM Saad Hariri at a mass rally organized by the Mustaqbal Movement in the northern city of Tripoli, Miqati’s hometown, Saniora said financing the STL was a duty and not some kind of generosity.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stated on Sunday that Lebanon is part of the international community and it therefore “cannot be selective in implementing its resolutions.”

He told Vatican radio during his ongoing trip to the European state: “We are committed to justice because it is a central way to find out the truth in the assassinations and crimes that have taken place in Lebanon.”

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi criticized on Sunday the government’s “hesitation” in adhering to international legitimacy, especially regarding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

He said during his Sunday sermon: “We warn against failing to respect international obligations and we hold the officials responsible for the dangerous repercussions Lebanon and its people would incur as a result of this failure.”