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.

A Katyusha rocket was fired Sunday night towards northern Israel from the southern Lebanese area of Ras al-Ain south of the city of Tyre, Lebanese media reports said.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday urged a fast probe into the Tripoli boat tragedy, stressing that “no one should be allowed to plunge the country into strife.”

“All of the elements of the investigation are known and hurrying up in the probe is the least duty that one can do,” Nasrallah said in a speech marking Ramadan’s Qadr Night.

Violent protests engulfed Tripoli on Sunday in connection with the deadly sinking of a migrant boat off the city overnight.

Survivors accused the army of deliberately ramming a navy vessel into the ill-fated boat, as the military said a collision occurred as the migrant boat's captain was carrying out escape maneuvers.

Ex-PM Saad Hariri on Sunday described testimonies by survivors of a migrant boat that capsized off Tripoli as “dangerous,” demanding a swift probe, after some of those who were on the boat accused the Lebanese navy of deliberately sinking their vessel.

The Lebanese Army said Sunday that a boat that capsized off Tripoli was conducting escape "maneuvers" when it "collided" with a Lebanese army vessel, after some survivors accused the navy of deliberately ramming the boat.

Several survivors had told local TV stations that the Lebanese navy is to blame for the incident. They said a military ship rammed their migrant boat twice, damaging it, in an effort to force it to return to the coast.