The State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr issued two arrest warrants against two men on suspicion of firing rockets on northern Israel from southern Lebanon last Thursday.
Israeli warplanes carried out a strike on a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) base in the region of Naameh located 16 kilometers south of Beirut the following day.
The strike did not cause any casualties or material damage, while the PFLP-GC denied its involvement in the rocket attacks.
Also on Friday, sources told LBCI that the four arrested Syrian persons in the case of the Ballouneh rockets had prior knowledge of the operation, adding that some of them even helped in carrying out the attack.
Two rockets slammed on Thursday night (1st of August) into the region of Yarze, the first hitting the al-Frayha building near the Presidential Palace and the second landing near the Khashiqji building.
The blasts were the latest in a series of rocket attacks that have targeted areas just south of the capital in the past two months; a direct fallout from the civil war in neighboring Syria.
The attack occurred on the same day that President Michel Sleiman delivered a speech on the occasion of Army Day in which he criticized the involvement of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in the Syrian civil war in support of Assad's forces.
Similarly, Judge Saqr Saqr filed a lawsuit against Sheikh Hashem Menqara, Sheikh Ahmad Gharib and Mustafa Houry as well as whomever is found guilty via investigations, on charges of forming an armed gang tasked with perpetrating felonies against people and their properties, undermining the state’s authority, attacking civil and military institutions and forming a terrorist group to implement attacks near al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
Judge Saqr’s decision came in accordance with articles 5, 6, 335 Penal Code 11/01/1958.
The State Commissioner also filed a lawsuit against Syrian Captain Mohammad Ali and Ali Khodr al-Araban on charges of being involved in the car bomb attacks that killed civilians in the northern city of Tripoli, according to articles 549/21 Penal Code.
Another lawsuit was filed against Sheikh Hashem Menqara on charges of withholding information related to the said blasts.
On Friday the 23rd of August, two explosions rocked the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli near the al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques, leaving 45 killed and almost 500 others injured.
Thick black smoke billowed as gunshots were fired into the air. Ambulances rushed to the scene and security forces cordoned off the area for fears of further attacks.
In the details, one blast occurred outside the al-Taqwa mosque as Friday prayers ended, while the other the other hit central Tripoli near the al-Salam mosque facing the residence of the former general director of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces Major General Ashraf Rifi.
The al-Taqwa mosque is where hardline Salafist Sheikh Salem Rafei preaches. He has been known for his anti-Syrian regime sentiment. The blasts came amid rising tension in Lebanon resulting from Syria's civil war, which has sharply polarized the country along sectarian lines and between supporters and opponents of the regime of President Bashar Assad.