Caretaker Defense Minister Maurice Slim announced Thursday that he was unharmed after the rear door glass of his car was hit with gunshots in the Jisr el-Bacha area.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil said Thursday that the Shiite unity is not enough and that the resistance needs national unity.

"Kahale represents for all of us a great symbol of struggle," Bassil said.

Kataeb party leader Sami Gemayel said Thursday that the situation is dangerous and unacceptable, after deadly clashes between Hezbollah members and residents of the Christian town of Kahaleh left two dead.

"We are no longer ready to coexist with these arms and this armed militia in Lebanon," Gemayel decried.

Grand Jaafarite Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Qabalan on Thursday described Hezbollah member Ahmed Qassas, who was killed in the Kahale clash, as “the martyr of the entire country and one of the country’s protectors.”

The parliament bureau convened Thursday to discuss several laws before Speaker Nabih Berri called for a parliament session to be held next Thursday.

The MPs also discussed the latest security incidents, Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab said.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday met in Ain el-Tineh with the head of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, Waheed Jalalzada.

A Hezbollah arms truck flipped over Wednesday on the Kahale road after which a deadly clash with residents erupted, media reports said.

TV networks said Hezbollah members opened fire in the area, killing a Kahale resident and wounding another person. One Hezbollah member was also killed in the incidents according to reports.

A veteran Lebanese Forces official has been abducted and killed in the southern town of Ain Ebel, his hometown, CCTV footage and a forensic doctor’s report said, days after reports said that the man had died in a traffic accident.

“The forensic doctor’s report says that Elias Hasrouni was strangled and hit with a gun butt on the head and on his rib cage, which resulted in the fracture of his ribs and their penetration of a lung, before the body was thrown near the car’s location,” al-Jadeed reported on Wednesday.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that Damascus has not “intervened to resolve the crisis in Lebanon.”

A preliminary presidential agreement has been reached between the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah, FPM chief Jebran Bassil said.

"We have reached a preliminary agreement with Hezbollah on a course leading to a consensual candidate in return for national demands," Bassil revealed, adding that "it is not possible to elect a president without an understanding" and that he is counting on an "inter-Lebanese dialogue."