Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Sunday issued a sharp-toned statement warning of “a plan to target the Premiership” and “isolate the first position of the Sunni sect in Lebanon,” days after caretaker PM Hassan Diab was charged in the probe into the port blast.

Caretaker Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi on Sunday issued a new memo relaxing the country's curfew and anti-coronavirus measures.

Fahmi's memo coincides with the holiday season, in which Lebanon usually witnesses a boost in touristic and shopping activities.

Israeli troops on Sunday fired 10 gunshots between the al-Abbad and the Manara Israeli military posts facing the Lebanese border towns of Mays al-Jabal and Houla, TV networks said.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday said he hopes the latest political, sectarian and legal controversy will not impede the ongoing probe into the catastrophic Beirut port explosion.

Amal Movement MP Ali Hassan Khalil of the Development and Liberation Parliamentary bloc criticized as “inconsistent” the indictments charged against him and other Lebanese figures over the deadly port blast.

The President’s media adviser Rafik Chlala said Saturday that President Michel Aoun “did not interfere in the ongoing investigation” in Beirut’s port blast, but requested “immediate action” after being informed of the threat around two weeks before the explosion.

“President Aoun never interfered in the ongoing investigation of the port blast. True he did ask for quick investigation, but that does not mean he intereferd. He never did, not with the investigating judge nor with any judicial authority,” said Chlala.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea said Saturday the entire Lebanese state is responsible for the port explosion, after the indictment of caretaker PM Hassan Diab stirred controversy.

PM-designate Saad Hariri on Friday stood in solidarity with caretaker PM Hassan Diab after charges accusing the latter of “negligence” in the Beirut port explosion.

Hizbullah deputy chief Naim Qassem said on Friday that an only solution for the crisis in Lebanon is through the formation of a government.

Hizbullah on Friday blasted as “politicized” the lead investigator’s decision to indict caretaker PM Hassan Diab and three allied ex-ministers over Beirut’s colossal port explosion on August 4.

The group called on the investigating judge Fadi Sawwan to reconsider his decision, saying it lacked a legal and constitutional basis and that the four were being selectively charged.