Hizbullah on Sunday stressed that the upcoming parliamentary elections will not affect the so-called "resistance-army-people equation" regardless of who wins the vote.

"The electoral juncture is a chance for rapprochement and agreement on a new electoral law, as the 1960 law now belongs to the past,” deputy head of Hizbullah's Executive Council, Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, said.

Change and Reform bloc MP Alain Aoun confirmed on Sunday that he would participate in the meeting of an electoral parliamentary subcommittee the next day.

“Hadn't I withdrawn from the meetings, the minutes wouldn't have been finalized,” he said.

Lebanon appealed on Sunday for $180 million from Arab countries to help it meet the Syrian refugee influx that has threatened to bring the number of the displaced to 420,000 in June, as the Arab League decided to send a team to Syria's neighboring countries to assess the status of refugees ahead of a donor conference in Kuwait on January 30.

Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis agreed to send a team to Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq "to assess the situation of Syrian refugees on the ground," the Arab League said.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi called for free politicians who would take bold decisions against hegemony and urged the state to take preventive measures before the influx of refugees from Syria becomes a “timebomb.”

“We need free officials … capable of taking bold and courageous decisions that stand up against hegemony and injustice, and of exerting every effort for the public good,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday sermon.

A Lebanese military expert defused on Sunday three hand grenades found in the area of al-Mina in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said the grenades were discovered in the area of Borj al-Sibaa.

The supporters of Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir staged sit-ins across the southern coastal city of Sidon on Sunday to voice their support for the Syrian revolution against President Bashar Assad.

The two-hour protests at noon included symbolic sit-ins and gatherings at four roundabouts that mainly lie on the eastern highway of Sidon and on Morjan roundabout where the cleric staged a 33-day protest last year.

A delegation from the March 14 opposition's al-Mustaqbal movement is seeking to meet with Speaker Nabih Berri to discuss with him its rejection of the so-called Orthodox Gathering proposal on the parliamentary elections, sources said Sunday.

The al-Mustaqbal sources told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that the delegation will ask for a meeting with Berri to discuss with him the proposal and alternatives to it in an attempt to revive dialogue between the two sides after talks were held around two months ago between al-Mustaqbal bloc leader MP Fouad Saniora and the speaker.

Energy Minister Jebran Bassil expressed regret on Sunday that President Michel Suleiman has criticized the so-called Orthodox Gathering proposal and criticized al-Mustaqbal movement for allegedly targeting power sharing.

“I am surprised that he rejects the project unless I personally hear that from him,” Bassil, who is a leading member of the Free Patriotic Movement, told An Nahar newspaper in an interview.

The spokesman of the military wing of the Meqdad clan was released from jail on Saturday, the National News Agency reported.

“Maher al-Meqdad was released on condition he does not leave the country,” the NNA said, explaining that Military Tribunal Judge Imad al-Zein has issued a decision to let him leave the prison after paying a bail of 12 Million liras.

More than 200,000 Syrian refugees have fled the bloody conflict in their home country for Lebanon, according to figures released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Saturday.

“195,000 Syrians are currently receiving aid from the Lebanese government, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations,” a statement released by the U.N. said.