An explosive device containing 600 grams of dynamite detonated on Friday morning near the party’s office in Chouf.

A 600-gram dynamite targeted one of the newly-established offices of Arab Tawhid Party in Mount Lebanon, the National News Agency reported Friday.

NNA said that the explosives went off at 1:00 am on the staircase of the office in the area of al-Samqaniyeh and Baqaata that Wahhab was set to inaugurate on Friday evening.

The Lebanese Party condemned the “criminal act” that allegedly targeted one of its offices in Boqaata in the Chouf district.

“[We] condemn this criminal and cowardly act… which was implemented in a manner [reflecting] professional terrorism,” the party said in a statement following reports about the IED blast.

The statement said the explosion caused “a lot of damage,” adding that one person was injured.

The Arab Tawhid Party called for unity to avoid internal strife and voiced the importance of adhering to positions that support resisting “schemes of foreign domination aiming to divide the [Arab] nation.”

“The best response to this cowardly act was to maintain our decision to inaugurate the office on Friday at 6 p.m. However, we postponed the opening due to painful event of the death of Druze Sheikh Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine,” a well-respected figure in his community who died of natural causes earlier in the day.