Judicial investigator into the port blast Judge Fadi Sawwan on Wednesday rescheduled the interrogation of ex-ministers Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zoaiter to January 4, the National News Agency said.

Parliament has asked Judicial Investigator Judge Fadi Sawwan to submit a file detailing any “serious suspicions” he has regarding officials he has charged or intends to charge in the ongoing probe into the devastating August 4 explosion at Beirut’s port.

President Michel Aoun on Wednesday warned of “the danger of the rumors that are being circulated through media outlets.”

The US ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea cancelled a visit to the municipality of Sidon on Wednesday after some protesters chanted slogans rejecting her visit, the National News Agency reported.

An Israeli military boat violated Lebanese territorial waters off Ras el-Naqoura region, sailing for four minutes inside Lebanese waters, the Army Command-Orientation Directorate said in a statement Wednesday.

The military said the boats infiltrated the waters at 16:16 on December 14.

Former minister Youssef Fenianos said he is going to appear before the investigating judge over the Beirut port blast probe but according to his own scheduling, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

Former ministers Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zoaiter, both lawmakers in Lebanon’s parliament, tend to boycott a questioning session scheduled by Judge Fadi Sawwan into the Beirut port blast, as the parliament bureau committee plans to meet on the issue, Asharq el-Awsat newspaper reported Wednesday

The Free Patriotic Movement-led Strong Lebanon bloc on Tuesday warned of the presence of “intentions, and perhaps plots, to impede the judicial investigation” into the Beirut port explosion.

The Lebanese Army on Tuesday warned citizens against accepting Facebook friend requests from Israel’s Mossad spy agency.

The lead judicial investigator into the port blast, Judge Fadi Sawwan, has scheduled Wednesday sessions for the interrogation of ex-minister Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zoaiter, the National News Agency said.