A recent meeting held at the Grand Serail and chaired by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati tackled the latest security developments in Lebanon, including a number of booby-trapped cars that were discovered in the country, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Thursday.

Widely-informed sources told the daily that the heads of security agencies revealed that they are following leads on a booby-trapped car that “will be used in a terrorist attack.”

Contradicting reports emerged on Thursday on whether Hamas is cooperating with the Lebanese army intelligence on handing over two witnesses in the May rocket attack that targeted Hizbullah controlled neighborhood of Shiyah, in Beirut's southern suburbs,

Hamas previously confirmed that Fadi Taha, the brother of the suspect Ahmed Mahmoud Taha, and his cousin were handed over to the intelligence bureau as witnesses.

France is pushing for holding an international meeting on Lebanon in September given the rising security and political challenges in the country, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Thursday.

An informed French source told the daily: “France is persuading friendly nations to hold a meeting on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly to help Lebanon and provide political support to President Michel Suleiman.”

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel stressed on Thursday that the security agencies are fully carrying out their tasks and fighting “terrorism,” in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

He pointed out that the security agencies are cooperating to reveal all the security schemes targeting the country.

Independent social activists staged a sit-in on Wednesday evening at Beirut's Martyrs Square to protest the massacre of the Syrian Ghouta town in Reef Damascus.

The sit-in was held with the participation of National Struggle Front MP Akram Shehayeb, al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Ahmed Fatfat and a number of social activists and Syrian non-governmental organizations.

Relatives of the Lebanese pilgrims kidnapped in Syria's Aazaz revealed on Wednesday that they are planning to file a complaint with the European Union against Turkey “for protecting the abductors.”

"Turkey must stop its maneuvers and release the abducted pilgrims because it is the party responsible for their freedom,” stated Sheikh Abbas Zgheib, who has been tasked by the Higher Islamic Shiite Council to follow up the case of the pilgrims.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri “strongly condemned” Wednesday's Reef Damascus massacre, considering that the problem lies in “the international community that continues to allow Syrian President Bashar Assad to commit crimes.”

“No words can describe the massacre inflicted by Assad’s forces on hundreds of children, women and innocent Syrian civilians in the suburban Damascus town of Ghouta,” Hariri said in a released statement.

A truck coming from Syria and carrying 10 hidden rockets was seized on Wednesday in the Bekaa.

"The Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau seized a truck that carried 10 hidden 107 mm rockets,” LBCI television reported.

An Israeli force on Wednesday deployed and staged a military parade near al-Wazzani border region, provoking the national army to increase its security alert.

"Around 22 troops deployed on the outskirts of the eastern Wazzani region near the barbed wire,” the NNA detailed.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea urged the United Nations' investigators present in Syria to inspect the Reef Damascus town where “a horrific massacre” took place earlier on Wednesday.

"We strongly condemn the horrific massacre that killed hundreds of civilians and children in Reef Damascus this morning,” Geagea said in a released statement.