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Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general Naim Qassem has accused Israel for the assassination of terrorist mastermind, Imad Mughniyah, saying, “we have clear proof, of 100 percent that cannot be doubted, that Israel is the head of the assassination.” Fighting has continued to rage in the Ain al Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon after Fatah forces […]

Clashes between Shiite and Christians in southern Beirut resulted in eight killed and 22 wounded. A senior leader of Shia Amal was killed in the fighting. The Lebanese Army seized a large weapons cache in the city of Sidon.

A car bombing in a Christian neighborhood in Beirut killed four, including an intelligence officer. The intelligence unit the officer belonged to is “closely involved in the U.N.-led investigation into the 2005 assassination of Hariri’s father, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, and in a crackdown on al Qaeda-inspired militants.”

A US Embassy vehicle was reported to have been hit with a roadside bomb in a Christian neighborhood in Beirut. “Television footage showed several damaged cars, including an SUV with tinted windows, similar to those used by U.S. diplomats,” the AP reported. Two people were reported killed.

Security forces arrested Nabil Rahim, a high-ranking member of Fatah al Islam during a raid in Tripoli. Rahim’s wife and Zakharia Trabulsi, an aide, were also arrested.