Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri stated on Friday that the Lebanese and its Shiite community are paying the price for Hizbullah’s involvement in Syria, and assured that Lebanese banks are applying international financial regulations that have been approved by the whole parliament including Hizbullah MPs.

“All of Lebanon, with all its regions and communities, starting with the dear Shiite community, is paying unbearable prices for options in which Lebanon, the Lebanese people and their state have no say,” said Hariri at an Iftar he held in the Bekaa, in honor of families from Zahle, Central Bekaa and Baalbek.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to comment in the coming days on the bombing that rocked the headquarters of BLOM Bank in Verdun, media reports said, after several parties accused his party of staging the attack to intimidate the banking sector amid a row over the implementation of anti-Hizbullah U.S. financial sanctions.

The Association of Banks in Lebanon discussed the latest developments in an extraordinary meeting on Monday and condemned the attack that targeted the HQ of BLOM Bank in the capital a day earlier, an ABL statement said.

“ABL and the Lebanese share condemnation of the bombing that targeted a reputable economic institution, and we believe that this attack has affected the whole banking sector and aims to destabilize the economy,” said the statement.

Lebanese politicians slammed on Monday the latest bombing attack that targeted the HQ of a reputable Bank in the capital Beirut a day earlier.

“We denounce the Orlando and Beirut attacks. They only make us more determined to continue our joint fight against takfiri terrorists,” Lebanon's Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

The explosion that rocked Beirut Sunday evening and that targeted the HQ of BLOM Bank, was preceded by a series of “threat” messages the most recent was a report published by the Iranian Fars News Agency, al-Mustaqbal daily reported on Monday.

The message enclosed warnings attributed to a figure associate of Hizbullah against the banking sector in Lebanon, it said.

Washington denounced on Monday the bombing that rocked the western part of the Lebanese capital late Sunday and targeted the HQ of BLOM Bank, LBCI reported on Monday.

“Washington denounces the terrorist bombing. The United States reiterates its strong commitment towards the Lebanese people's stability and security,” State Department spokesman John Kirby stated.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat has suggested that there is a link between a blast that went off Sunday evening outside a major bank in Beirut and a growing row between Hizbullah and the central bank governor over the implementation of U.S. financial sanctions against the party.

“The objective of the bombing in Beirut is to deal a blow to the economy and the banking system and I had called for a calm dialogue about the U.S. sanctions,” Jumblat told An Nahar newspaper shortly after the explosion outside the Verdun headquarters of BLOM Bank.

A bomb went off Sunday evening outside a branch of the BLOM Bank in Beirut's Verdun area, injuring two people.

The powerful explosion was heard across the western part of the capital.

Nine members of the same family have been food poisoned and transferred to the state-run Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, the Health Ministry announced on Sunday.

A prostitution ring has been busted inside an under-construction building in the Keserwan area of Safra and eleven Syrian and Lebanese nationals have been arrested, the Internal Security Forces said on Sunday.