Two people were wounded on Tuesday by stray bullets during armed clashes between the Jaafar and Zoaiter clans in the Bekaa city of Baalbek.

Rocket-propelled grenades were also fired in the air during the fighting, according to state-run National News Agency.

An army soldier was accidentally killed on Tuesday while moving a shell at a shooting and training field near the port of the northern city of Tripoli.

The army said “a soldier was martyred when a military unit was dismantling an explosive device in Tripoli's Free Zone.”

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc on Tuesday strongly criticized the stances of March 14's general secretariat and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on the recent clashes in Brital, warning that “the terrorists could be plotting a new military operation.”

“We are now facing two 'forbidden things' -- it is forbidden to respond against terrorism outside Lebanon to fend off the threats and it is forbidden to respond from inside Lebanon,” the bloc said sarcastically in a statement issued after its weekly meeting, referring to Hizbullah's intervention in Syria and its latest battle against jihadist militants in the outskirts of the Bekaa border town of Brital.

Internal Security Forces arrested on Monday two suspects in the Jounieh region on drug smuggling charges, the ISF general directorate announced on Tuesday.

It said that it seized in their possession over two million Captagon pills, weighing 340 kilograms.

Hizbullah claimed responsibility on Tuesday of a blast on the border between Lebanon and Israel that wounded two Israeli soldiers.

An explosive device targeted an Israeli patrol in the Shebaa Farms in southern Lebanon, said the party.

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour expressed hope that the case of the abducted soldiers and policemen would witness a breakthrough in the upcoming days, stressing that “sacrifices” should be made.

“The cabinet will continue the serious negotiations that should lead to the release of the abductees,” Abou Faour told reporters at the Grand Serail after meeting with Prime Minister Tammam Salam.

Head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri held talks on Tuesday with French President Francois Hollande in Paris on the latest local and regional developments.

The former premier said after the meeting at the Elysee Palace that the presidential elections should take place before parliamentary ones.

Barricades and sandbags were reportedly erected anew on Tuesday around a security square established by two notorious Tripoli fugitives Shadi al-Mawlawi and Osama Mansour.

According to Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) the barricades are spread on the main streets separating the rival Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen neighborhoods in the northern city and between Bab al-Tabbaneh and army posts in Tripoli.

Qatar is no longer mediating the release of Lebanese soldiers and policemen taken captive by jihadists from the northeastern border town of Arsal in August, al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front sources said.

The sources told al-Akhbar newspaper published on Tuesday that the Qatari mediation came to an end after the Lebanese government reneged on an agreement to free Islamist inmates from Roumieh prison in return for the freedom of three of the hostages.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam expressed disappointment on Tuesday from the procrastination regarding the case of the abducted soldiers and policemen, saying that he didn't make any pledges.

“I was transparent since the beginning of the crisis, announcing that I don't have a magic wand,” Salam told al-Mustaqbal newspaper.