President Michel Suleiman called for “national solidarity to prevent the enemies of stability in Lebanon from reaching their goals."

"It's another episode of a terrorist plan targeting the country,” Suleiman said in a released statement in which he condemned the “massacre” in the northern city of Tripoli.

Syria on Friday condemned the “coward terrorist” bombings that hit the northern city of Tripoli.

"We strongly condemn the terrorist act that targeted our people in Tripoli,” a statement released by the neighboring country's Ministry of Information said.

Hizbullah on Friday condemned “the twin terrorist bombings that targeted innocent civilians in the city of Tripoli,” urging “wisdom and awareness.”

“The criminal hand of terror insists to preoccupy the Lebanese with the counting of their martyrs and wounded through targeting innocent civilians in all Lebanese regions,” the party said in a statement.

Former Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi said the deadly twin bombings that hit Tripoli on Friday are “a chance for us, as Lebanese, to shoulder our responsibilities in protecting our people, whether in Dahieh, Tripoli or anywhere else.”

“I had warned all officials seven months ago that Lebanon had entered the storm, and unfortunately every party engaged in a scheme until things reached this extent,” Rifi said in a phone interview with LBCI television.

Speaker Nabih Berri stated on Friday that “the same terrorist and criminal hands” attacked the northern city of Tripoli days after “they” killed dozens of people in Beirut's southern suburbs.

"Tripoli's twin blasts are the work of the same killers who orchestrated the Dahieh bombing,” Berri said in a released statement.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned on Thursday against the “killing machine that is moving from one city to another in Lebanon” after deadly twin blasts in the northern city of Tripoli killed over 27 people and wounded 358 others.

"These hands want to sow strife in Lebanon and overturn any moment of stability in the country,” Hariri said in a released statement.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati condemned on Friday the twin bombings in his hometown the northern city of Tripoli, saying that they are a “clear attempt to create strife.”

He said in a statement: “Tripoli and its residents however will once against demonstrate that they are more powerful than the conspiracy and they will not be lured towards strife.”

The death toll from twin car bombings Friday in the northern port city of Tripoli rose to 42, a security source said, in the bloodiest attack since the 1975-1990 civil war.

"The death toll has risen to 42 in Tripoli," the source told Agence France Presse.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon command announced on Friday that it had received Israeli confirmation that it had carried out an airstrike in the Naameh Valley between Beirut and Sidon.

It said in a statement that Force Commander Major General Paolo Serra had contacted the Lebanese and Israeli army chiefs to urge them to exercise restraint.

President Michel Suleiman tasked on Friday caretaker FM Adnan Mansour to file an urgent complaint to the U.N. Security Council against Israeli attack on Naameh.

“The border violations must be resolved by UNIFIL's (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) investigation committee and not by aggression or violating the sovereignty (of Lebanon),” Suleiman said.