Syrian President Bashar Assad has allegedly criticized Lebanon's policy of dissociation from the Syrian war and hailed the nomination of Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam.

“I don't understand what this policy means. Is it meant to transfer Lebanon to the African continent and keeping it there until the Syrian crisis ends?” a delegation from Lebanese pro-Syrian parties that visited Assad in Damascus quoted him as saying.

Al-Mustaqbal MP Moeen al-Merehbi allegedly fired shots in the air to disperse a bumper-to-bumper traffic in the northern city of Tripoli caused by an Internal Security Forces unit.

According to a communique issued by ISF general directorate, the patrol was removing a building violation in the Beddawi area when the lawmaker arrived at the scene and demanded the ISF unit to remove the checkpoint as it was causing bumper-to-bumper traffic.

A van carrying 12 passengers and driven by Hussein Mohammed Barakat on Sunday overturned on Adaisseh's public road and slid into an area disputed with Israel on the border, state-run National News Agency reported.

Several passengers were injured and some of them were transported to hospital for treatment, NNA said.

The list headed by Nehme Mahfoud, the incumbent head of the syndicate of private schools teachers in Lebanon, on Sunday achieved a sweeping victory in the syndicate's elections, receiving 4,000 more votes than the rival list.

In remarks he voiced after polls closed, Mahfoud saluted Lebanon's teachers “who were loyal, despite the various political affiliations.”

A rock slide in the Kesrouan town of Yahshoush overnight Saturday has rendered several roads impassable and prompted the army to create alternative side roads.

"Neighborhoods in the town were isolated as the collapse of a part of the mountain cut off the road leading to several towns, two of which have no other routes," LBCI television reported.

The Syrian opposition on Sunday called on Hizbullah to end its military involvement in Syria's conflict, warning that the party's “interference” could have “disastrous consequences.”

In a statement, the main opposition National Coalition urged Hizbullah to "immediately withdraw its forces from Syrian territory", adding that the group's involvement in Syria's conflict "could drag Lebanon and the region into an open-ended conflict with disastrous consequences."

The army on Sunday carried out raids in the area of al-Sharawneh in the eastern city of Baalbek after it engaged in a gunbattle with gunmen, the military command said.

The communique said that an army patrol came under fire by gunmen as it was raiding the house of a suspect in al-Sharawneh.

The families of Islamist inmates in Roumieh prison held a sit-in outside the compound east of Beirut on Sunday although the Lebanese army prevented reporters from covering the event.

Some 15 buses were seen heading to the compound, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Three rockets and a shell fired from Syrian territory landed in Lebanon's Hermel district on Sunday, causing material damage only, the state-run National News Agency reported.

A shell and two rockets hit the road leading to the Sahlat al-Ma' area in the town of al-Qasr, NNA said.

Hizbullah MP Mohammed Raad reiterated on Sunday that the new government would not be able to run Lebanon's affairs if its members were not political figures, hinting that a technocrat cabinet was a “waste of time.”

“The cabinet will not be able to govern Lebanon if it was not political,” Raad said. “It doesn’t only have the mission of supervising the parliamentary elections.”