Twenty-four journalists from Lebanese and Pan-Arab media have attended a two-day seminar at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in the Netherlands.

The seminar was held on 13 and 14 February 2018 and aimed at briefing the journalists on the latest developments in the work of the Tribunal and responding to questions they may have.

Hizbullah's actions pose a threat to the security of Lebanon and have a destabilizing influence in the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday.

President Michel Aoun on Thursday called on Washington to press Israel to stop its "continued violations against Lebanon's territorial, maritime and aerial sovereignty," during talks in Baabda with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Aoun also told Tillerson that the U.S. should urge Israel to "commit to the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701."

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said on Thursday that President Michel Aoun has “given his remarks” to visiting US secretary of state Rex Tillerson, noting that he sees “positivity” in Tillerson's statements.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Lebanon Thursday where he held talks with senior Lebanese officials.

Tillerson's visit, part of a tour of the Middle East, comes at a time of tension between Lebanon and neighboring Israel, notably over the role of Hizbullah and Israel's encroachment on the country’s land and maritime border.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri has called the Cabinet for a meeting on Thursday at Baabda Palace to take a “unified” stance as for a U.S. offer regarding the disputed oil field with Israel, the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily reported.

A residential building collapsed in a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Thursday killing a woman and her child and wounding a man, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said the building, which partially collapsed in Ain el-Sekkeh neighborhood in Bourj al-Barajneh camp, killed a seven-year old child identified as Sali, and her mother Zainab, while the father was injured.

The Head of the Defense Office of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, François Roux, is leaving the Tribunal on March 1, 2018, the STL said on Wednesday.

“Mr. Roux has not been reappointed due to the fact that he has passed the retirement age set at 65 by the STL Staff Rules and Regulations,” the tribunal explained in a statement.

The Prosecutor of the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Norman Farrell, pointed out Wednesday that the tribunal is not trying political parties, organizations or states but rather individuals.

Speaking during an STL-organized meeting with journalists in The Hague, Farrell noted that the court does not have jurisdiction, so far, to look into the assassinations of MP Gebran Tueni, industry minister Pierre Gemayel and other figures who were murdered after Hariri's assassination. He, however, added that the STL can establish jurisdiction over the cases should it discover links to Hariri's case.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Wednesday underscored his keenness on Lebanon's so-called policy of dissociation towards regional conflicts, as he promised a “real” battle against Hizbullah in the upcoming elections.

“Let everyone know that I will not sell my Arab brothers 'fake Lebanese political goods'... We are not merchants of positions and slogans, we are honest about our role towards our people and our brothers,” Hariri told a BIEL rally marking the 13th anniversary of the assassination of his father – ex-PM Rafik Hariri.