Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has lashed out at President Michel Aoun’s presidential term, describing his tenure as “failed,” “spiteful” and “disastrous.”

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday warned Israel against “making a mistake towards the resistance in Lebanon” or over “the issue of oil and gas and the issue of the maritime border.”

Shiite Lebanese marked Tuesday the holy day of Ashoura, one of the most emotional occasions in their religious calendar, commemorating the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein.

With power split in Lebanon among the country's religious sects, Ashoura presents an opportunity for Lebanon's Shiites to show force.

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani has received a letter from President Michel Aoun related to “bilateral ties between the two brotherly countries and means to develop them,” Qatar’s official news agency said.

MPs Najat Aoun Saliba and Melhem Khalaf on Monday held a press conference in parliament to tackle the issue of the long-running blaze at the blast-hit grain silos of Beirut’s port, which has been burning for around a month.

President Michel Aoun is holding back on signing the amended banking secrecy law pending answers from the Lebanese team that is negotiating with the International Monetary Fund, al-Jadeed TV reported on Monday.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab held talks Monday at his office with Qatari Ambassador to Lebanon Ibrahim bin Abdul Aziz al-Sahlawi.

Sixteen independent and "change" MPs convened Monday at the Parliament to discuss the Parliamentary sessions' agendas and the method of voting.

The MPs will not discuss the upcoming Presidential election, MP Ashraf Rifi said before the meeting.

Free Patriotic Movement MP Salim Aoun said that there was a plan to beat President Michel Aoun since the start of its term as President.

"Only one year after Aoun's election as President, back then Prime Minister Saad Hariri was kidnapped," MP Aoun said. "The aim was to create a strife in Lebanon," he added.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea called Monday the 67 MPs who are not supporters of the so-called Axis of defiance to cooperate in order to select a candidate for Presidency.

Geagea considered that "any reform plan must start with the election of a new President."