Internal Security Forces general directorate denied on Tuesday reports that two grenades found in the northern city of Tripoli were targeting Prime Minister Najib Miqati or any other official.

“The two hand grenades were tossed away from the road and we presume that whoever put them wanted to get rid of them,” the statement said.

A suspicious car was located on Saturday near the residence of former Alawite MP Ali Eid in the Akkar town of of Hekr al-Daheri, the state-run National News Agency reported.

An Internal Security Forces unit arrived swiftly at the scene to search the Mercedes.

Syrian authorities handed over Lebanon on Saturday three more bodies of Salafists killed in an ambush by regime troops in Tall Kalakh last month, in the third and last round of transfer of corpses from Syria.

The bodies of Malek al-Hajj Deeb, Abdul Hakim Ibrahim, and Hussein Srour were transferred from Syria through the Arida border crossing in northern Lebanon.

A man and a woman were found killed in a car repair shop in the northern city of Tripoli, reported the National News Agency on Friday.

It said that the two victims were found stabbed to death in a car in the shop located on Arz Street in al-Qobbeh neighborhood in Tripoli.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati and al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc were involved in a verbal duel over statements issued by the premier regarding the recent clashes in the northern city of Tripoli.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc lashed out on Tuesday in a statement after the MPs' weekly meeting at the Center House at Miqati's comments on Tripoli's events, saying that his remarks are a “political scandal serving the Syrian regime.”

Security forces contained an incident during which several men assaulted a Palestinian and forced him to walk naked in a street in the northern city of Tripoli, Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported on Sunday.

It said several men from Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood tortured Ahmed al-Mdallali, a Palestinian, and then forced him to walk naked in the street for allegedly working with the Arab Democratic Party.

Head of the Mustaqbal bloc MP Fouad Saniora noted on Friday that Prime Minister Najib Miqati's recent proposal over the resignation of the government does not help ease the political crisis in Lebanon.

He said during a press conference from his Sidon office: “Miqati's proposal does not end the political deadlock, but it only adds new conditions to resolving it.”

The families of the Lebanese fighters who were killed in Syria's Tall Kalakh recently warned of staging rallies across Lebanon on Monday if the authorities failed to retrieve the bodies of the men over the weekend, demanding the expulsion of Syrian ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali.

“If we don't retrieve the corpses by Sunday we will invade the streets,” head of committee formed to follow up the case of slain Tall Kalakh fighters Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahim told reporters.

The Maronite bishops council slammed on Wednesday the threat of assassinations against lawmakers in Lebanon, spread of arms, and the recent unrest in the northern city of Tripoli, noting that these are signs of the loss of the authority of the state.

It said in a statement after its monthly meeting: “Security cannot be established by appeasing all sides, but by taking firm action.”

Army chief Gen. Jean Qahwaji said on Wednesday that the military wanted to avoid bloodshed by not interfering immediately in the deadly fighting between the residents of rival neighborhoods of the northern city of Tripoli.

“Every time incidents happen, the army is accused of procrastination in settling” the fighting, Qahwaji told al-Akhbar newspaper.