[An Nahar] Armed festivities renewed on Friday evening on all frontiers in Tripoli...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, ending a fragile four-hour ceasefire, as supporters of Prime Minister Najib Miqati gathered on the streets and blocked several roads in the wake of his resignation.
Rocket-propelled grenades were fired amid heavy gunfire and sniper activity, state-run National News Agency reported.
"Supporters of PM Najib Miqati gathered at the Abdul Hamid Karami Square in Tripoli and blocked all roads leading to the roundabout, in solidarity with the PM after he submitted his resignation," NNA said.
"Army troops fired back heavily at the sources of gunfire in Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, amid sporadic shelling with RPGs," the agency added.
The corpse count from three days of fighting in Tripoli rose to six on Friday.
Earlier on Friday, Arab Democratic Party media officer Abdul Latif Saleh told LBCI television that the party had informed the army that it will declare a unilateral ceasefire.
Kinda 1987-ish, isn't it?
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
the gathering of Islamic powers in al-Qobbeh and Bab al-Tabbaneh held a presser to stress that the festivities in the city are not taking place between Sunnis and Alwawites.
"These sects are the sons of a the same region. The festivities are taking place with an oppressive power that usurped the decision-making power of the Alawite sect in Tripoli," they added.
The gatherers demanded that the security forces be allowed to perform their duties in Tripoli "in order for all sides to feel that the military institution is standing at an equal distance from all sides."
They called for a ceasefire, adding: "We did not start the violence and we did not call for it."
A Lebanese soldier was among the dead in the three-day festivities.