Saudi Arabia has launched consultations to hold an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers for the purpose of issuing a decision that condemns Hizbullah, reports said Friday.

According to the reports, Riyadh is seeking to clinch an Arab support for a draft resolution that condemns Hizbullah over its role in Syria and Yemen.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam has dropped a plan to go on a Gulf tour following a Saudi decision to cut off billions of dollars of aid to the Lebanese army and security forces, al-Joumhouria daily reported Friday.

Salam decided instead to carry out contacts with several Gulf countries through their ambassadors in Beirut, said the newspaper.

The United Nations has called for continued support by the international community for the Lebanese army and security forces following a Saudi decision to cut off billions of dollars of aid.

“It is important that there be continued international support for the Lebanese Armed Forces and for the stability of Lebanon, as stated by the Security Council,” said U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

Saudi Arabia has lashed out at Lebanon, cutting off billions of dollars of aid and telling its citizens to leave the country, after Beirut sided with Iran in the fallout over the execution of a Saudi Shiite cleric, in a diplomatic dispute that threatens Lebanon's struggling economy.

The tension reflects the worsening Sunni-Shiite conflict in the Middle East, which is driven by regional powerhouses Saudi Arabia and Iran, who are fighting proxy wars in Syria, Yemen and, to a lesser extent, in Iraq.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq warned Thursday that al-Mustaqbal movement is “reevaluating” its presence in the government, the national dialogue sessions and the bilateral dialogue with Hizbullah, after a series of Saudi measures against Lebanon sparked a new standoff in the country with the Hizbullah-led camp.

“I'm in favor of suspending the bilateral dialogue with Hizbullah,” said Mashnouq in an interview with LBCI television.

Dozens of Lebanese employees have been fired from their jobs in Saudi Arabia, media reports said on Thursday, amid an unprecedented rift in the Saudi-Lebanese relations.

“Around 90 Lebanese citizens have been informed by their employers in Saudi Arabia that they have been laid off,” MTV reported in the afternoon.

Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri stressed Thursday that Hizbullah's terror accusations against Saudi Arabia are baseless while noting that the party's “practices, crimes and killing of others” in some Arab countries are “documented” and corroborated.

“There are efforts to establish a truce (in Syria) and we hope it will last, but the final solution will eventually oust Bashar Assad and Hizbullah's members and militants will have to return to Lebanon,” said Hariri during a Center House meeting with a delegation representing Lebanon's Arab tribes.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam revealed on Thursday that progress has been made in resolving the country's ongoing trash disposal crisis.

He credited this progress to “facilitations made by some sides over certain issues.”

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Thursday a detainee with terrorism and belonging to an armed terror group, reported the National News Agency.

The suspect, known as Abou Malek Sara, is charged with booby-trapping vehicles, belonging to a terrorist group, and killing soldiers.

Social media users vented their anger at the Lebanese authorities on Thursday after CNN mocked what it called Beirut's river of trash in a Mount Lebanon town.

“Congratulations on the new fame! (Lebanon) is the best country in the world,” a woman said on her Facebook account after sharing the video of the CNN report.