The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution supporting the continued presence of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

"Conditions are not met for the voluntary, dignified return of refugees in conflict-prone areas in Syria," the European Parliament's resolution text said.

French presidential envoy for Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian has met in Riyadh with Saudi premiership official Nizar al-Aloula, Saudi news agency SPA said.

Al-Jadeed television meanwhile reported that the meeting’s outcome was that “Paris has become convinced of the collapse of its first initiative for Lebanon.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said in a televised interview that he "will not waste additional time on a dialogue that will not lead anywhere."

"Hezbollah will never be an advocate of dialogue," Geagea said, stressing that the group has a pragmatic image and a specific plan that it would never deviate from.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday said that his party has erected a tent in the occupied Shebaa Farms to stir debate inside and outside the country over Israel's occupation of the northern part of the Ghajar village and other border points, urging a decisive Lebanese stance.

Israeli fire wounded three members of Hezbollah on Wednesday near the border with Israel, a security source in southern Lebanon said.

The incident comes amid tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border area, a stronghold of Hezbollah and the site of sporadic skirmishes.

The five-nation group on Lebanon, which comprises the U.S., France, KSA, Qatar and Egypt, will meet Monday in Doha, media reports said.

French envoy Jean Yves Le Drian, Ambassador of France to Qatar Jean-Baptiste Faivre, a representative of U.S. diplomat Barbara Leaf, Saudi royal envoy Nizar al-Aloula and Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid al-Boukhari will attend the meeting, ad-Diyar newspaper reported Wednesday.

Former defense minister Yacoub Sarraf announced Wednesday that he will testify before the French judiciary on August 3 in the Beirut port blast case, after Lebanese judges refused to hear his testimony in Lebanon.

“Expect a big surprise during the coming weeks!!!” Sarraf had tweeted on July 5.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil dubbed Wednesday what has been said about land border demarcation with Israel as a flagrant constitutional violation.

Bassil said he was surprised when the Lebanese government told the United Nations that Lebanon is ready to demarcate its southern borders along the Blue Line.

The German judiciary has asked Lebanon to “obtain files and documents related to the accounts of the central bank governor and his brother and assistant from inside the central bank,” media reports said.

“Lebanon’s State Prosecutor Judge Ghassan Oueidat received over the past hours a memo from the German side through the Lebanese Justice Ministry, requesting that it (German side) be allowed to raid the central bank and seize files and documents related to the accounts of Riad Salameh and his brother and assistant,” a senior judicial official told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

U.S. Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security Amos Hochstein held talks Tuesday in Tel Aviv with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Council chief Tzachi Hanegbi, Israeli and Lebanese media reports said.

“The discussions tackled a number of topics, including the tensions between Israel and Hezbollah and the efforts to reach a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia,” the reports said.