Hassan also added that Prime Minister Hassan Diab will head to the presidential palace to hand over the resignation in the name of all the ministers.
Diab is set to deliver an address to the nation at 7.30 pm local time - or 5.30pm UTC time.
The cabinet, formed in January with the backing of the powerful Iranian-backed Hezbollah group and its allies, met today after a slew of resignations.
Justice minister Marie-Claude Najms, information minister Manal Abdel-Samad, finance minister Ghazi Wazni, defence minister and deputy PM Zeina Akar, and environment minister Damianos Kattar have all resigned in quick succession before the meeting
The wave of resignations came as prosecutor Ghassan El Khoury began to question the heads of government agencies believed to be responsible for the explosion.
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Public Works Minister Michel Najjar told Al Jazeera he had only found out about the presence of the explosive material stashed at the port 11 days before the explosion.
Public Works Minister Michel Najjar told Al Jazeera he had only found out about the presence of the explosive material stashed at the port 11 days before the explosion.
Badri Daher, Director General of Lebanese Customs, told broadcaster LBCI that customs had sent six documents to the judiciary warning that the material posed a danger.
He said: "We requested that it be re-exported but that did not happen. We leave it to the experts and those concerned to determine why."
Another source close to a port employee said a team that inspected the ammonium nitrate six months ago warned that if it was not moved it would "blow up all of Beirut".
Two documents revealed that Lebanese Customs had asked the judiciary in 2016 and 2017 to ask the "concerned maritime agency" to re-export or approve the sale of the ammonium nitrate.
One of the documents cited similar requests in 2014 and 2015 - suggesting repeated warnings about the danger were overlooked by the authorities.
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