Interior Minister Marwan Charbel warned that the situation in Lebanon could remain fragile as long as Syria is engulfed in violence but stressed that Lebanese security forces are exerting all efforts to preserve stability.

In remarks to several Beirut newspapers published Wednesday, Charbel said: “Anything could take place at the security level in Lebanon as long as the situation in Syria is volatile and as long as there is lack of internal consensus.”

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, said Tuesday that the security events recently witnessed in Lebanon “are not coincidences because there are internal sides contributing to sow chaos,” adding that “blocking roads to protest electric shortages is useless.”

After the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting at Rabiyeh, Aoun said that “the security events taking place are not considered a coincidence because certain sides are seeking to sow chaos in the streets,” warning the Lebanese to be aware of such attempts.

Doctor Moussa Abou Hamad will be released from custody after being detained from allegedly being responsible for the death of a pregnant woman, reported the National News Agency.

He will be released on a bail of L.L. 50 million, said Voice of Lebanon radio.

Factions of the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp demanded on Tuesday that an investigation be launched in the recent unrest in the camp that resulted in the deaths of Ahmed al-Qassem and Fouad Loubani.

They announced in a statement: “We will continue our sit-in away, but we will refrain from blocking roads in the camp, until our demands are met.”

President Michel Suleiman expressed his relief on Tuesday over the judiciary’s rate in issuing verdicts.

He hoped after holding talks with Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi that these measures “would help ease prison overcrowding and resolve issues that had accumulated over the years.”

Electricite du Liban’s general manager Kamal al-Hayek held the company’s contract workers responsible for the blackout that plunged Lebanon into darkness on Monday.

The factories are not undergoing any “maintenance or repair as there are no decisions being taken, and no meetings held but only problems moving from a floor to another” at the company, Hayek told An Nahar newspaper on Tuesday.

Authorities on Tuesday have released nine Islamists detained in Roumieh prison after at least four years of imprisonment.

Two Palestinian Islamists were not immediately freed, but handed to the Internal Security Forces.

The case of Lebanese interpreter Helen Assaf, who was detained in Libya on June 7, could witness a breakthrough soon as international sides are exerting efforts to release her along with 3 other International Criminal Court members.

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said on Tuesday that the International Criminal Court team held in Libya could be freed if the ICC apologizes to Tripoli over "inadequate consultation.”

Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji warned on Tuesday against the fabricated tension across Lebanon, describing the current phase as “difficult.”

“The army will not allow to be deviated away from its mission,” Qahwaji told As Safir newspaper.

Tension between Palestinians and the Lebanese army at the entrance of the refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh reportedly left one person dead, raising Monday’s toll of clashes between the military and the residents of several shantytowns in Lebanon to two.

Palestinian sources told An Nahar newspaper published Tuesday that Khaled Youssef, 20, was killed and 11 others were injured overnight when Palestinian groups attacked army checkpoints at the southern refugee camp’s entrances and mainly al-Tahtani street.