Eleven people, including eight children, were injured at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Wednesday when a shell left over from battles between the army and militants exploded, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said the explosion went off near Jabal Tabour school at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, leaving eight children and three teachers wounded.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said on Wednesday Hizbullah's interference in battles in Damascus would “tarnish its image,” pointing out that the Syrian people don't need Jihadists from Lebanon or any other country to back its revolt.

“As the situation in Syria is deteriorating and the Lebanese are plunging in this swamp, officials should reiterate importance of abiding by the dissociation policy,” Jumblat said in a statement.

The military court of cassation ordered on Wednesday the release on bail of Fadi al-Hujairi who was accused of involvement in the deadly attack on the Lebanese army in the northeastern town of Arsal more than two months ago.

The court headed by Judge Alice Shabtini ruled against a decision by the examining military magistrate, Judge Fadi Sawan, not to release al-Hujairi, the state-run National News Agency reported.

An Internal Security Forces unit began on Wednesday removing building violations in Beddawi region in the northern city of Tripoli.

The ISF patrol was accompanied by a special panthers unit, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Lebanese caricaturist Pierre Sadek died on Wednesday aged 75 after a battle with illness, the state-run National News Agency said.

Born in 1938 in Zahle, Sadek was a political caricaturist, whose drawings have been a daily staple in the An Nahar newspaper and on Lebanese public television screens.

A former personal secretary to Osama bin Laden got a strong rebuke from a judge Tuesday as he was sentenced to life in prison for a second time after claiming the Sept. 11 attacks and Superstorm Sandy were "God's punishment" for injustice against himself and others by the United States.

"You sir, in my judgment, are a committed terrorist who has betrayed his country," U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told Wadih El-Hage after listening to the claims of the Lebanese-born man who became a U.S. citizen.

Lebanese group Hizbullah's decision to fight openly alongside the Syrian regime will increase Lebanon's involvement in Syria's conflict, despite a policy of neutrality, analysts say.

But despite inflaming tensions, the country is unlikely to face serious instability as a result, because none of its political forces have an interest in such a scenario for now, they say.

Only ten lawmakers have so far signed a petition that calls for challenging the suspension of deadlines set by the 1960 electoral law, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The daily said that seven National Struggle Front MPs, deputy Speaker Farid Makari and lawmakers Ahmed Karami and Marwan Hamadeh had signed it by Tuesday.

Controversial Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir stressed that he will not withdraw his call for jihad in Syria, urging scholars and clerics to approve his fatwa to aid “the oppressed” in the town of al-Qusayr, southeast of Homs.

“We should establish secret defense cells to defend ourselves in case (Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan) Nasrallah decided to start battles in Lebanon similar to what's happening in Syria,” Asir told reporters.

Speaker Nabih Berri has rejected appeals made by rival lawmakers for a parliamentary session before May 15 over the absence of a consensual electoral draft-law.

In remarks to local newspapers published Wednesday, Berri said he can't call for such a session without having a consensual vote law on parliament's agenda.