While Lebanese Army has hightened its security measures across the country in search for wanted fugitives,  the case of abducted troops in Arsal seems to have entered a new stage.

Two days ahead of Prime Minister Tamam Salam's visit to Qatar where he is set to discuss the captured servicemen's case, Sheikh Moustafa Houjeiri announced that he will suspend his efforts to release the kidnapped policemen.

In an interview published in Annahar daily on Friday, Houjeiri stated that he has been threatened by some well-known parties.

"I will no longer intervene in this case and I am threatened of assassination by well-known parties. Even when I came under fire last time, no one bothered to contact me and check up on me, including the parents of the soldiers," he added.

During a four-minute-long phone call with his parents,  the abducted soldier Ahmad Abbas 

confirmed that all the captives held by al-Nusra Front are in good health. 

I reiterate the group's demands which are the immediate withdrawal of Hizbullah from Syria, the release of Islamist inmates in "Roumieh prison as well as treating the Syrian refugees well as they have treated Lebanese people in July war 2006," he said.