Israel's Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon has asked the Security Council to condemn a warning made by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah against attacking Lebanon.

In a letter he sent to the Council on Wednesday, Danon said: “The time has come for the Security Council to respond firmly against Hizbullah’s repeated threats against the citizens of Israel and its ongoing military buildup.”

Education Minister Elias Bou Saab said Thursday that the World Bank has decided to give around $100 million of assistance for Lebanon's education sector.

Bou Saab told al-Liwaa daily that the World Bank will decide in the next stage on which projects to spend the assistance.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed Wednesday that Hizbullah does not want presidential elections in the current period or the election as president of its main Christian ally, Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun.

Britain announced Wednesday its intention to provide £13 million of additional funding for the Internal Security Forces, as Interior Minister Nouhad al-Machnouq ended a three-day visit to London.

Israeli troops crossed into south Lebanon on Wednesday and attempted to kidnap a Lebanese shepherd, state-run National News Agency reported.

The army's strike force launched on Wednesday a search for two Lebanese members of the extremist Islamic State group in the eastern Bekaa town of Baalbek, reported the National News Agency.

The search is focusing on the Sharawneh and al-Shiqan neighborhoods that have been cordoned off.

The family of Nizar Zakka, a Washington-based Lebanese information technology expert, is urging Beirut authorities to press for his release by Iranian authorities after his health deteriorated as a result of his hunger strike.

Zakka, who is the secretary general of the professional computers association of Lebanon (PCA) and the Arab ICT Organization (IJMA3), and vice president of the World IT and Services Alliance (WITSA), was arbitrarily detained in Iran around six months ago.

The 37th session to elect a president was postponed once again on Wednesday following a lack of quorum at parliament as Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri criticized head of the Change and Reform bloc MP Michel Aoun's assertions that parliament is “illegitimate.”

He said: “If we elected Aoun as president, would the parliament then become legitimate?”

An Army Intelligence unit shot dead on Wednesday a Lebanese military deserter in the northern district of Akkar, the military said.

Corporal Atef Saadeddine died during a shootout with the intelligence patrol, it said in a communique.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq is expected to issue a decree over the weekend calling on the electorate bodies to take part in the municipal elections, An Nahar daily reported on Wednesday.

Voter lists for the polls that are scheduled to start on May 8 were issued by the Interior Ministry last month.