Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi called on Hizbullah on Saturday to reevaluate its decisions and "return to the Lebanese state."

"We must benefit from the new regional and international developments to get our country out of the Syria war,” Rifi stressed in an interview with MTV.

A group of renters in the Beirut neighborhood of Ashrafieh blocked the streets leading to Sassine Square in the area on Saturday afternoon, protesting the new rent law.

The protesters took to the streets to call for a “fair bill.”

The army defused on Saturday a bomb placed on a car wheel in the town of Sheikh Taba in the northern region of Akkar.

"Hatem Zahraman reported on Saturday morning that a suspicious object was placed on the wheel of his Honda Accord in Sheikh Taba,” a communique released by the military institution said.

A tensed atmosphere was reported in Roumieh prison on Saturday afternoon, after an inmate died of “health problems.”

"Inmate Hussein Abdullah Sbaity has died of ailment in Roumieh,” the state-run National News Agency said.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam on Saturday warned of vacuum in the presidency, considering that it would drag Lebanon into “a difficult and critical phase.”

He also called on local factions to communicate with Hizbullah regarding the party's involvement in the ongoing Syrian war.

Army troops on Saturday carried out raids in several neighborhoods in the northern city of Tripoli, as part of the security plan which implementation kicked off on Tuesday to restore calm and stability in the North.

"Troops raided the Hara Barranieh and Souq al-Qamh regions in Tripoli,” radio Voice of Lebanon (93.3) said.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq revealed on Saturday that the security plan adopted to restore stability in the northern city of Tripoli will be also implemented in northern Bekaa, and later in Beirut.

He also assured that there are no unofficial checkpoints or armed forces anymore on the roads of Baalbek and Hermel in the Bekaa.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Saturday 12 Lebanese, including Arab Democratic Party politburo chief Rifaat Eid, with belonging to an armed group, possession of arms and inciting sedition.

State-run National News Agency reported that the 12 men are charged with belonging to an armed terrorist group, seeking to carry out terrorist acts and involvement in gunbattles between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh in the northern city of Tripoli.

A woman, who was abducted in the northern city of Tripoli, was released on Saturday in unknown circumstances.

State-run National News Agency reported that 43-year-old Sawsan Abdul Haq, who hails from the town of Hayzouq in the northern region of Akkar and been kidnapped on Friday while en route to Tripoli, was transferred to the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau in the northern city.

Four soldiers were injured in a gunbattle that erupted with men from the Chamas family in the eastern Bekaa town of Hermel.

According to Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) four soldiers were injured at dawn in an exchange of fire with men from the Chamas family.