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.

The Ambassadors of France, the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon met on Thursday with Prime Minister Tammam Salam and reaffirmed their strong support for the continued stability and security of Lebanon, a joint statement said.

“The ambassadors and the Special Coordinator commended the efforts of the Prime Minister to govern under increasingly difficult circumstances and conveyed their ongoing support for his work,” said the statement.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri described the Iranian political and media war against Saudi Arabia as “an episode in a dangerous series that only aims at exacerbating discord and threatening stability in the region.”

“After the irresponsible words of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the eve of Eid al-Adha, his foreign minister came out with a text full of hatred against Saudi Arabia,” said Hariri on Twitter.

Telecommunications Minister Boutros Harb stated on Thursday that parties claiming to be defending the rights of the Christians are the same ones hampering the election of a president and thus harming the Christians' right to have a Maronite head of state.

“Those raising the slogan of defending the Christians' rights and the National Pact are deluding the people that the lingering conflict over positions is between Muslims and Christians,” said Harb in a press conference.

The Lebanese army arrested thirty Palestinians on Thursday against the backdrop of a clash that erupted a day earlier in the northern refugee camp of al-Beddawi, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The army cordoned off the camp setting checkpoints and taking strict security measures that led to the arrest of the detainees.

The Lebanese army shelled the positions of the Islamic State group on the outskirts of the border towns of Ras Baalbek and al-Qaa, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

From their positions in the northern Bekaa valley, the army bombarded the IS positions with heavy artillery.

Three people were wounded, including an Internal Security Forces member, in an exchange of fire in the Palestinian refugee camp of al-Bass in the southern city of Tyre, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

An ISF patrol was removing a construction violation in the camp of al-Bass near the EDL company in Tyre when the owners of the violations and several members form the camp started acting roughly with the security members.