Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri tweeted Tuesday that summoning Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea to appear before the Intelligence Directorate is “absurd.”

“It leads to further divisions in the country and to using state administrations to serve revenge policies,” he said.

For eight months, he has quietly investigated one of the world's worst non-nuclear explosions with only four assistants — and a lot of powerful detractors trying to block him.

In that time, Judge Tarek Bitar has become a household name in Lebanon and a staple on every news bulletin.

Israel has said it is opening its border to agricultural workers from neighboring Lebanon, with which it is technically at war, to pick olives.

"In light of the economic situation in Lebanon, and as a gesture of goodwill to the Lebanese people, the IDF opened the border to agricultural workers from Mays al-Jabal, Aitaroun and Blida," an Israeli army statement read.

Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar on Monday joined a Higher Judicial Council meeting after he was summoned by the conferees, media reports said.

State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat meanwhile left the meeting seeing as he had been recused from the port case.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was on Monday summoned to testify as a “witness” in the case of the Tayyouneh-Ain al-Remmaneh deadly incidents.

“You are required to be present at the Defense Ministry in Yarze – the Intelligence Directorate’s Investigations Branch – at 9am Wednesday to give your testimony as a witness over the case of the Tayyouneh-Shiyyah-Ain al-Remmaneh incidents,” an Intelligence Directorate notice said.

Taxi drivers blocked several key roads across the country on Monday morning in protest at the latest hike in fuel prices.

In the capital, the drivers blocked the vital Ring highway and the Saifi intersection in central Beirut.

The government is still present and will continue its mission despite the latest suspension of Cabinet sessions, ministerial sources said.

The political forces taking part in it “do not intend to topple it, because they have no interest in this,” the sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Monday.

A number of Ain al-Remmaneh residents will file a lawsuit Monday against Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Annahar newspaper said.

The residents have prepared “a complete file backed with testimonies, evidence and videos proving that Ain al-Remmaneh came under a deliberate attack,” the daily added.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Fadi Akiki has charged 68 people, including 18 detainees, with murder, attempted murder and the stirring of sectarian strife in connection with the deadly Tayyouneh incidents, state-run National News Agency said on Monday.

Among those charged in absentia were the Lebanese Forces official in charge of Maarab security, Simon Musallem, two Amal Movement members, two Syrians and a Lebanese Army soldier, media reports said.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati traveled Monday morning on an official visit, from Beirut to Iraq, to meet with his Iraqi counterpart Mustafa al-Kadhimi, the Premiership said.

Miqati was accompanied by General Security chief Major General Abbas Ibrahim, who is also taking part in the meeting.