Baalbek resident Hussein Seifeddine was freed Sunday by his captors after he was abducted last week from a shop in the Bekaa border town of Arsal.

“He is now on his way to his home in the town of Hawsh al-Rafeqa in Baalbek,” state-run National News Agency reported in the evening.

Lebanese national Marwan Issa was found killed Sunday in the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, a day after he went missing in the area.

“Issa was found killed with a gunshot to the head inside a car's trunk in the Jabal al-Halib area in the Ain el-Hilweh camp,” state-run National News Agency reported.

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.”