The government condemned on Thursday Israel's strike against Syria's Quneitra region, accusing the Jewish state of repeatedly violating international resolutions.

Information Minister Ramzi Jreij declared: “Confronting the strike must take place through respecting international resolutions.”

A vehicle rigged with explosives was discovered at the entrance of the northeastern border town of Arsal, while a gunmen infiltration attempt was foiled, the army announced on Thursday.

A military expert soon arrived at the scene and defused the bomb.

Rabih Assem Awada who was arrested by the army confessed on Thursday that he contributed in many kidnapping operations, said the military in a statement.

“One of them was the kidnapping Kuwaiti citizen Issam al-Houti,” its said while adding that Awada was previously engaged in clashes with the army and the Internal Security Forces.

Hizbullah General Secretary Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to make a speech next Friday during a popular rally to mourn the party fighters who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria's Quneitra.

Nasrallah will reveal Hizbullah's stance from the raid that killed a high-ranking Iranian military official, a prominent Hizbullah member and five others.

Islamic State militants released on Thursday two men they had kidnapped in the northeastern border town of Arsal two days ago, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Ali Riyad Ezzeddine and Mustafa Hassan Zaarour were kidnapped in Arsal's outskirts on Tuesday, NNA said without giving further details.

Head of al-Mustaqbal Movement MP Fouad al-Saniora warned on Thursday that Israel will not skip a chance to attack Lebanon, stressing that it is no longer acceptable to risk the lives of the Lebanese.

“It is no longer acceptable to risk the lives of the people to implement foreign agendas that don't meet the demands of the Lebanese and achieve their interests,” Saniora said in a statement.

MP Atef Majdalani and Health Minister Wael Abou Faour hailed on Thursday the approval of the joint parliamentary committees of a draft-law on food safety, hoping for its swift approval by the legislature.

“The draft-law has become a reality and we would soon have a modern law that protects food,” said Majdalani during a joint press conference with Abou Faour following the approval of the draft-law.

Tension increased on Thursday in Rajem Khalaf area on the outskirts of Wadi Khaled region in north Lebanon a day after Mohammed Hmeidan was killed in an individual dispute.

The state-run National News Agency reported that two houses which belong to the Asaad family were set ablaze at dawn in retaliation to the death of Hmeidan.

Several agents are recruiting jihadists to carry out suicide bombings in Lebanon and Syria as the latest report says that a man, who resides in Denmark, is suspected of brainwashing youth to join extremist organizations.

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday that security forces are suspecting that M.A., who is residing in Denmark, is playing an important role in recruiting youth to join terrorist organizations with the aim of carrying out suicide attacks in Lebanon and Syria.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim lamented that the negotiations on the release of the Lebanese hostages was going in a slow pace and stressed the necessity to stop terrorists from hiding in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh.

“The problem of the captives does not require consensus, which we already have. It requires agreement on several issues and many of them are on the right track,” Ibrahim told al-Akhbar daily in an interview published on Thursday.