Senior Hizbullah official Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek called Friday for “a strong state” that can provide “security” and “real partnership.”

The Palestinian factions at the al-Beddawi refugee camp on Friday handed over to the Lebanese army a number of camp residents who were wanted over Thursday's clash in the Jabal al-Beddawi area, state-run National News Agency reported.

Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun held separate talks on Friday with a European Union delegation and British Ambassador to Lebanon Hugo Shorter, state-run National News Agency reported.

The Internal Security Forces arrested three people involved in smuggling narcotics in the southern suburbs of Beirut (Dahiyeh), an ISF statement said on Friday.

“The Anti-Drug Bureau in Beirut and Mount Lebanon obtained information about a drug dealer in the neighborhoods of al-Sfeir and Ghobeiri,” said the statement.

The dead body of a man was found inside his house in the Baalbek town of Douris in east Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported on Friday.

The man was identified as J.Aa and was found dead.

A bomb blast in a Syrian refugee encampment in the northeastern border town of Arsal wounded four people, the state-run National News Agency reported on Friday.

A hand grenade exploded in the al-Nour camp for Syrian refugees in Wadi Hmeid in Arsal, NNA said.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri hailed the judiciary's efforts that unveiled an assassination plot against Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat.

“The disclosure of a plot to assassinate the head of the Democratic Gathering bloc Walid Jumblat is a security and judicial achievement that deserves to pay a tribute to all those who contributed to uncovering it,” said Hariri.

First Military Investigative Judge Riad Abou Ghaida issued a death penalty indictment that was reduced to life imprisonment against former Progressive Socialist Party member Youssef Fakher, nicknamed the Cowboy, on charges of an assassination attempt against PSP leader MP Walid Jumblat, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

Fakher was arrested in August by the General Security on charges of involvement in preparations to assassinate Jumblat, having links with Israel and for forming armed groups.

International authorities have stressed the importance that Lebanon engages in the international summit for migrants and refugees that will convene in New York on September 20 and, in the UN General Assembly on refugees scheduled on September 19 in NY as well, An Nahar daily reported on Friday.

Diplomatic sources said that at the conferences Lebanon will receive significant financial and moral support, and that it will be an opportunity to convey a message to the world to assume responsibilities in helping Lebanon carry the burden of refugees, added the daily.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed that he “will never reconcile with Syrian President Bashar Assad,” and that a reconciliation will mean his political end.

“I prefer to commit suicide on my own terms instead of going to Syria and shake hands with Assad,” said the MP in an interview to Carnegie Middle East Center on Thursday.