Three Lebanese citizens arrived late Sunday at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport after being released from UAE prisons, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.

NNA identified the trio as Mohsen Qansou, Ali Fawwaz and Jihad Fawwazeddine.

Unknown assailants shot dead Jamaa Islamiya official Sheikh Mohammed Jarrar at midnight in the southern border town of Shebaa, the National News Agency said.

NNA said Jarrar, the group’s public relations official who is in charge of the Shebaa department, was gunned down while standing at the door of Shebaa’s al-Rahma Medical Dispensary which he ran.

Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat on Sunday launched a fresh jab at al-Mustaqbal Movement, amid a new row between the two parties.

“Why did mobile networks witness an outage yesterday morning in the Aley-Chouf region,” Jumblat tweeted.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim on Sunday left for Tehran to follow up on ongoing preparations to release from prison Lebanese citizen and U.S. green card holder Nizar Zakka, the security agency said.

Zakka is serving a 10-year sentence on espionage charges.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Sunday threw his support behind the Internal Security Forces institution, in the wake of the latest criticism that has targeted it.

“I salute the ISF and its director general, officers and personnel on the 158th anniversary of its establishment,” Hariri said.

Interior Minister Raya al-Hassan on Sunday said the Internal Security Forces institution is “extremist” in its efforts against terrorism, as ISF chief Maj. Gen. Imad Othman clarified his remarks about the Islamic State-inspired gunman who killed four troops in Tripoli.

“The ugly crime that hit Tripoli was made by the remnants of the terrorism which Lebanon has succeeded in the fight against it,” Hassan said in a speech marking the anniversary of the ISF’s creation.

President Michel Aoun on Saturday stressed there should be “no compromise and no leniency with terrorism” or with any party that finds justifications for those who attack the sovereignty of the state, its security institutions and innocent people.

Israeli troops crossed the barbed wire fence in the Kfarshuba area on Saturday and stayed for fifteen minutes before withdrawing to Israeli territories, the National News Agency reported.

Defense Minister Elias Bou Saab toured the northern military zone in Tripoli’s al-Qobbeh where he met with senior officers, Mufti of Tripoli and senior political figures, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

The Israeli security measures on the border with Lebanon “do not indicate an imminent military operation,” but may be part of precautionary security measures adopted by the occupation forces, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday.