The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants issued a statement regarding "the information circulated by several news websites about a statement attributed today to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants in the caretaker government, Abdullah Bou Habib, concerning the Lebanese army's inability to deploy and take control in the south." The ministry denied "that Minister Bou Habib made any statement on this matter to any media outlet," pointing out that "this information is fragmented, misleading, and taken out of several previous statements, and is not true."