The Minister for EU Affairs, The French Foreign Minister, the French Development Agency, and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre have signed an agreement to launch a joint €30 million fund in support of Lebanon.

The Saudi-French project will fund a series of humanitarian and development initiatives in crisis-hit Lebanon.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement Secretary-General Ahmed Hariri on Tuesday criticized remarks voiced by ex-PM Fouad Saniora, who is backing an electoral list in Beirut’s second electoral district.

“Your love and keenness on al-Mustaqbal Movement are not new, but the return to evaluating ex-PM Saad Hariri’s decision to suspend participation in elections as being part of the handover of the country to Hizbullah and Iran is something that resembles that campaigns targeted against our Movement and its leader,” Ahmed Hariri tweeted.

Cabinet decided Tuesday to establish a council for developing the North region, as it convened to discuss the tragic sinking of a boat off the northern port city of Tripoli.

The ministry of social affairs will contact international organizations to discuss offering aid to the families of the victims, Information Minister Ziad Makari said at the end of the session, adding that the military court will investigate the accident.

The Israeli army announced Tuesday that it seized weapons on the border with Lebanon, after having fired flares overnight over the border area.

“The army overnight detected suspects approaching the security fence from the Lebanese side and scrambled security forces to the location,” Israeli army Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a tweet.

Elie Haykal, the activist accused of assaulting the energy minister, turned himself in Tuesday to the Zouk Mosbeh police station.

State Security agents had earlier erected checkpoints across Zouk Mosbeh in a bid to arrest the man, as his lawyer sought to convince him to turn himself in, al-Jadeed TV reported.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called Tuesday for a general session on Thursday to discuss withdrawing confidence from Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.

The Lebanese Forces MPs had called last week on parliament to withdraw confidence from Bou Habib over accusations related to the distribution of polling stations abroad.

Cabinet Tuesday tasked the armed forces with investigating how an over packed migrant boat capsized, a tragedy some survivors have blamed on the military.

The government "tasked army command with conducting a transparent investigation into the circumstances behind the incident under the supervision of the relevant judicial authority," said Information Minister Ziad Makari.

A joint parliamentary session on capital control was cancelled Tuesday due to lack of quorum, as activists rallied outside Parliament to protest the draft law.

Media outlets had reported earlier on Tuesday that the Free Patriotic Movement, the Lebanese Forces and al-Mustaqbal's MPs will not attend the session.

UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have said that they are “deeply saddened by the latest tragic incident at sea in which a boat reportedly carrying 84 people capsized off the coast of Tripoli, Lebanon, yesterday.”

Energy Minister Walid Fayyad was physically assaulted by activists outside a restaurant on Sunday night.