Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Tuesday posted a poem containing verses about “lies” and “blame,” a day after he tweeted a bible verse on “cheating” amid a row with President Michel Aoun and the Free Patriotic Movement.

Hariri’s tweet on Monday came after Aoun was caught on camera saying the PM-designate had “lied” about being given a cabinet line-up “paper” by the president.

Lebanon on Tuesday filed a U.N. complaint against Israel over its intensive aerial violations in recent days.

“President Michel Aoun today asked caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe to address an urgent letter to the U.N. Security Council and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres to condemn Israel’s aggression and aerial violations of Lebanon’s sovereignty and Resolution 1701, after the intensification of the Israeli violations of the Lebanese airspace,” the Presidency said.

A total lockdown set to start this week will exacerbate the suffering of vulnerable Lebanese families struggling to make ends meet unless the government offers assistance, a charity has warned.

The Interpol reportedly issued “red notice” for the owner of the Rhosus ship that brought ammonium nitrate to Lebanon leading to the port explosion, and for the Portuguese nitrate trader who examined the material in hangar number 12 in 2014, LBCI television reported on Tuesday.

A leaked video of President Michel Aoun accusing PM-designate Saad Hariri of “lying” about a government format, might be “intentional” to push Hariri to step down from his task, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Monday tweeted a bible verse about “cheating” after President Michel Aoun was caught on camera saying the PM-designate has “lied” about being given a cabinet line-up “paper” by the president.

“There is no formation. He says that we gave him a paper. He’s lying,” Aoun tells caretaker PM Hassan Diab in remarks caught by al-Jadeed TV’s camera. The president’s answer came in response to a question by Diab about the cabinet formation process.

The Higher Defense Council on Monday declared a general state of emergency that begins on Thursday and ends on January 25.

A daytime and nighttime curfew will be enforced from 5am Thursday until 5 am January 25 and all public and private cars will be banned from the streets, the Council said in a statement.

President Michel Aoun on Monday called for a “state of health emergency” in the country to “confront the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.”

“The tragedy we are witnessing at the doors of hospitals requires drastic measures so that we manage to alleviate the disastrous repercussions of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic,” Aoun added at the beginning of an emergency meeting for the country’s Higher Defense Council.

The Syndicate of Importers of Foodstuff, Consumer Products & Drinks on Monday reassured Lebanon’s residents that the country has sufficient stocks for at least two months, as reports that authorities intend to close supermarkets and grocery shops prompted consumers to panic buy.

In a statement, the Syndicate said it understands “citizens’ eagerness to buy foodstuffs with the inclination to declare a one-week general lockdown,” but noted that “the ongoing rush is unnecessary and would increase the spread of the pandemic.”

Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said Monday the country has entered a "very critical zone" in the battle against the coronavirus as his government mulls tightening the nationwide lockdown announced last week.

Following a new post-holiday surge in infections, the government imposed a nationwide lockdown and a nighttime curfew. But many were critical of the measures, calling them lax for exempting many sectors, such as factories, plant nurseries and exchange bureaus.