A ceasefire between armed rivals in Ain el-Hilweh, Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, has restored calm after several days of clashes, Palestinian sources said Wednesday.

The agreement in the camp, near the southern port city of Sidon, came on Tuesday following street battles that erupted on Saturday night.

Salafist cleric Ahmed al-Asir has been charged with forming terrorist cells in the southern city of Sidon, reported al-Jadeed television on Wednesday.

Judge Dany Zhenni also charged him with plotting the assassination of political and religious figures and inciting to attack the army.

One person was killed on Tuesday as an army unit came under fire as it was carrying out a raid in the eastern region of Baalbek in search of wanted suspects, the military announced in a statement on Wednesday.

It said that Moussa al-Dayqa and a number of other gunmen began shooting at the army as it raided the Hazin-Baalbek area.

A movement that has been organizing protests in downtown Beirut against endemic corruption said on Wednesday that it was ready to hold more demonstrations to give back the people their rights, deepening a crisis that started over piles of uncollected garbage in the streets of the capital and Mount Lebanon.

“We wanted to send a message through our demonstration that we are ready to sacrifice ourselves to gain our rights,” said the “We Want Accountability” movement at a press conference it held in Riad al-Solh Square a day after several protesters were injured in a scuffle with police.

The Israeli army uprooted several trees that are located outside the technical fence on Lebanon's southern border and also stole the soil at the entrance of the town of Adaisseh, the state-run National News Agency reported Wednesday.

Two excavators carried out logging and uprooting trees outside the fence between Kfar Kila and Adaisseh with the support of a Merkava tank and a number of Humvees.

Four gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese man in the eastern Bekaa Valley but the operation was thwarted after the car rental company stopped the vehicle's engine through the GPS tracker, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

NNA said the masked men were riding a black BMW when they stopped Qassem Mohammed Mahdi on the road of New Riyaq and forced him out of his rented Range Rover at gunpoint.

General Security has arrested in the past two days three Lebanese nationals tasked with recruiting gunmen to fight alongside the Islamic State extremist group, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The agency's Intelligence Branch arrested the three men in separate raids in northern Lebanon. One of them was apprehended in the area of al-Mankoubine north of Tripoli and another in the city's Bab al-Ramel neighborhood.

Syrian President Bashar Assad described on Tuesday as "legitimate" the presence of fighters from Hizbullah in Syria to back his forces against anti-regime gunmen.

"The difference (between Hizbullah and foreign anti-regime fighters) is legitimacy. Who invited Hizbullah to Syria?" Assad asked. 

Bkirki sources have denied that Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi would invite Maronite leaders for a summit to resolve Lebanon's growing political crisis.

The sources told An Nahar daily published on Wednesday that al-Rahi would call for a summit only if there is a high probability that the politicians would reach an agreement.

Large crowds rallied Tuesday at Beirut's Riad al-Solh Square for a fourth day to denounce the government's performance, in a protest that remained largely peaceful despite minor scuffles with security forces.

Two people were injured as security forces used batons to push away protesters after some participants described as “infiltrators” hurled rocks and “molotov cocktails” at police, the Internal Security Forces and state-run National News Agency said.