Overview
- Civil defence officials said recovery efforts concluded Monday with 14 bodies found and eight people pulled alive from the two-block structure in Bab al-Tabbaneh.
- The cabinet ordered assessments and evacuations of 114 at‑risk buildings within a month, prepared emergency shelters, pledged a year of housing allowances, and plans to reinforce salvageable blocks or demolish those at imminent risk.
- Justice Minister Adel Nassar directed the north’s public prosecutor to open an immediate investigation into the collapse.
- Tripoli’s mayor said at least 600 buildings require reinforcement, citing years of neglect, illegal construction and quake damage compounded by Lebanon’s economic crisis.
- Residents gathered at the site in anger as security forces deployed, while Amnesty International urged sustained reparations and reported the municipal council had submitted its resignation.