A military intelligence unit detained 36 participants in riots and clashes with the army and police, RIA Novosti reported referring to Lebanon's defense ministry.

On Monday, Lebanese President Michel Aoun and PM Hassan Diab announced the need to identify and detain all participants of riots.

The situation has become tense in Lebanon on October 17, 2019, when hundreds of thousands of citizens took part in anti-government demonstrations demanding effective economic reforms, holding politicians involved in corruption accountable, and returning funds stolen from the state budget. In November, Saad Hariri’s government resigned amid riots.

At the end of January, the country's president approved a cabinet headed by Diab, but the mass demonstrations in the country did not stop until the COVID-19 pandemic.