Lawmakers representing Beirut criticized on Monday the security situation in Lebanon, saying that “no reasonable individual” would accept the armed clashes that have erupted in the city over the past few months.

They said after a meeting at parliament: “The government is responsible for the unrest.”

Four Katyusha rockets were found in al-Khansa valley near the town of al-Majidiya in Hasbaya on Monday, media reports said, adding that the army engineering unit was seeking to defuse them.

The rockets, each hidden inside disused plastic water pipes placed under a thin layer of dirt, were found by a farmer.

The Drug Enforcement Bureau in the South destroyed on Monday 55 kilograms of heroin and 14 kilograms of cannabis and arrested their traffickers, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said the drugs that were confiscated from various areas in southern Lebanon were set on fire in the coastal city of Sidon.

Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn said Monday that the authorities know the identity of militants launching rockets on Israel in an attempt to destabilize southern Lebanon.

“We know who is launching the rockets, who is making them, who is making the explosives and who is destabilizing the South,” Ghosn told As Safir newspaper.

The cabinet is expected to swiftly issue the decree on the controversial wage hike during its session on Wednesday, according to al-Liwaa newspaper.

Sources denied that the appointments of the top civil servants to administrative posts reserved for Christians, among them the Higher Judicial Council, will be tackled during the session.

The prices of red diesel dropped by LL3,000 to reach LL27,100 on Monday in accordance with a government decision made last week.

The cabinet cancelled the Value Added Tax on red diesel saying the removal of the tax would be effective as of Monday.

Lebanese security forces have gone on alert to “closely monitor” the situation in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh after the assassination of a bodyguard of Palestinian Armed Struggle chief Mahmoud Issa.

An Nahar daily on Monday quoted informed sources as saying that the security forces are “closely monitoring” the camp amid reports that the tension between the Fatah movement and Islamic militants had reached its climax.

Speaker Nabih Berri said on Monday that the political parties should discuss thoroughly the possibility of adopting the Orthodox proposal regarding the parliamentary electoral law.

“This proposal is the result of the developments locally and in the region and is due to mounting fears (the Christians) have,” Berri’s visitors quoted him as saying.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri stressed late Sunday that he was willing to quit politics if the Lebanese people voted him out.

“If people vote me out I am willing to leave is that fair enough,” he said on Twitter when one follower told him that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s father Hafez left his post for him as Rafik Hariri did.

Fierce clashes erupted on Sunday in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp between Fatah Movement and the Islamist group Jund al-Sham after a bodyguard of Palestinian Armed Struggle chief Mahmoud Issa, aka al-Lino, was shot dead, three days after another bodyguard was assassinated in the same manner.

Three other people were wounded when an unidentified gunman opened fire in the camp, including a Fatah Movement military officer and a child, a Palestinian official in the camp told Agence France Presse.