A confidential Spanish military report on the death of a Spanish U.N. peacekeeper in Israeli shelling in Lebanon said he was manning a post that appeared to have been targeted, a newspaper reported Sunday.

El Pais cited extracts from the report which drew on testimony from soldiers following the January 28 incident when the Israeli military shelled border areas following a Hizbullah attack that left two Israeli soldiers dead.

Several Lebanese truck drivers were able to cross to Lebanon on Sunday after being stranded for four days along the Syrian-Jordanian border.

According to Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3), six truck drivers, who were trapped at the Jordanian Nasib crossing, were able to cross the al-MAsnaa border crossing in the eastern Bekaa Valley.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi lashed out at politicians on Sunday, stressing that the Lebanese are suffering due to the vacuum at the Baabda Palace and the sharp rift between the political arch-foes.

“The acute dispute between the rival parties divided the country into two and obstructed the civil society,” al-Rahi said during his Easter sermon at Bkirki.

The Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Adel al-Jubeir, slammed Hizbullah for depicting the Yemen crisis as a sectarian conflict, accusing the party and its longtime ally the Islamic Republic of Iran of being behind the Shiite Huthi rebellion in Sanaa.

“In Lebanon, Hizbullah controls a state, and we do not want such a situation to develop in Yemen through Huthis,” al-Jubeir said during a symposium at the U.S. Congress on “Chaos in Yemen: Analysis, diagnosis and prospects”, which was organized by the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington.

Speaker Nabih Berri expressed readiness on Sunday to sponsor dialogue between the sides involved in the conflict in Yemen, hailing Iran's wit during the nuclear deal with world powers.

“All sides expressed readiness to engage in dialogue, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Huthis and all involved sides... then what are we waiting for,” Berri's visitors quoted him as saying in comments published in the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.

Environment Minister Mohammed al-Mashnouq stressed on Sunday that the cabinet of Prime Minister Tammam Salam “remains a necessity for all” rivals.

“Despite all the developments, we are still capable of locating agreement amid the absence of a head of state and the regional conflicts,” Mashnouq said in comments published in the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper.

The Lebanese army foiled an infiltration attempt by gunmen near the northeastern border town of Arsal, killing a militant and detaining another.

“An army unit thwarted overnight an infiltration attempt by an armed terrorist group on the outskirts of Arsal and engaged in an armed battle with them,” the army said in a communique issued on Sunday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi reiterated on Saturday his condemnation of the ongoing vacuum in the presidency, urging political powers to hold the polls and end their boycott of the electoral sessions.

He said during his Easter message: “There are no constitutional justifications for the boycott of the elections.”

Head of the union of Arab tribes Sheikh Jassem al-Askar revealed that he is carrying out a series of contacts with a number of tribe leaders, who wield influence in Syria, to ensure the release of the Lebanese truck drivers who have been stranded since Wednesday on the Syrian-Jordanian border, reported al-Akhbar newspaper on Saturday.

He told the daily that he “received a pledge to release the drivers.”

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has announced its conditions for the release of Hussein Seifeddine, who was kidnapped from the northeastern border town of Arsal earlier this week, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

Arsal municipal chief Ali al-Hujeiri told the daily that the ISIL informed him that it does not want to hold negotiations over him, “but it wants 150,000 dollars and three trucks loaded with food and relief aid in return for his release.”