Caretaker Health Minister Ali Hasan Khalil warned on Monday that the number of wounded Syrians looking for treatment in Lebanese hospitals exceeds the country's potential to care for the injured.
"The number of wounded coming from (the Syrian border town of) al-Qusayr is expected to increase furthermore,” Khalil noted in phone calls with President Michel Suleiman, Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Speaker Nabih Berri.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia condemned on Monday the “blatant interference” of Hizbullah in the Syrian crisis, urging responding to international calls to provide “humanitarian aid to those affected by the war inside and outside the country.”
"The cabinet discussed the dangerous repercussions of the events taking place in Syria, as well as the escalation of violence and the use of military equipment to bomb and kill civilians,” the Saudi Press Agency reported.

Tens of the supporters of the Muslim Revolutionaries movement in Egypt on Sunday staged a sit-in in front of the Lebanese embassy in Cairo to protest Hizbullah's involvement in the Syrian war.
The Egyptian daily al-Shourouq reported that the protesters chanted slogans denouncing the party as the security forces brought reinforcements to the neighborhood where the embassy in located.

Israel has been the target of a growing number of cyber attacks from Iran, Hizbullah and Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
"In recent months, we have identified a significant rise in the scope of cyber attacks by Iran which are carried out directly by Iran and its proxies Hizbullah and Hamas," he told a cyber security conference at Tel Aviv University.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani rejected on Sunday statements attacking Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Shaikh, considering that this is an “offense to all Muslims.”
"An attack on the Mufti of Saudi Arabia is an attack on all Muslim due to the noble religious status he represents in the Arab and Islamic world,” Qabbani said in a released statement, adding that al-Shaikh is a “renowned Islamic and international reference in religious matters.”

Hizbullah announced on Sunday that entering the occupied Galilee region in northern Israel is still possible, despite the current Syrian crisis and the party's involvement in it.
"Despite the Syrian crisis and despite political and media pressures, the resistance today is at the highest levels of readiness,” declared top Hizbullah official Sheikh Nabil Qaouq during an event commemorating the one-week passing of Hizbullah fighter in Syria Hasan Ali Zahreddine in the southern town of Mais al-Jabal.

The Lebanese for the Freedom and Dignity of the Syrian People gathering on Sunday held a sit-in in Martyrs Square in Beirut to protest Hizbullah's activities in the Syrian war amid tight security measures.
Al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Khaled Zahraman, March 14 general-secretariat member Charles Jabbour and activist Saleh al-Mashnouq participated in the sit-in.

One person was killed and five other people were wounded on Friday afternoon as clashes renewed in central Tripoli between armed Salafists and gunmen loyal to Damascus and Hizbullah.
A security source told Agence France Presse that one person was killed and five others wounded in the old souks area as a house went up in flames after being hit by a shell.

After new clashes between Syrian troops and rebels in the Golan, and Austria's announced withdrawal from a U.N. monitoring force, Israel is concerned about security along its ceasefire line with Syria.
The Israeli army remained on high alert in the region on Friday, bringing up reinforcements of tanks and troops, and readying an anti-tank missile unit, media said.

Syrian regime forces sought Friday to follow up on their victory in the key town of Qusayr near the Lebanon border by sending reinforcements to battle rebels in Homs and the northern province of Aleppo.
Government forces were also trying to mop up final pockets of rebel resistance north of Qusayr, the town which it retook Wednesday bolstered by Hizbullah fighters.
