Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel announced on Tuesday coming forward with a suggestion to amend the preamble of the constitution to stipulate Lebanon's neutrality towards regional conflicts.

"We request amending the constitution to clearly state that Lebanon must stay neutral towards regional events,” Gemayel said after the weekly meeting of the party's political bureau.

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on Tuesday said Israel is not getting involved in Syria's civil war, but stressed that it will not allow any transfer of “sophisticated weapons” to Hizbullah.

Yaalon's remarks come just days after two Israeli air strikes near Damascus sent regional tensions soaring. The raids struck several military targets in the early hours of Friday and Sunday, with a senior Israeli source saying they destroyed Iranian missiles en route to Hizbullah.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Tuesday stated that the weapons that were used against the Lebanese on May 7, 2008 are now being used against the Syrian people, urging the interference of the international community to stop Israel's attacks on Arab territories.

"Hizbullah has transformed into a tool that serves the Syrian regime and this is implicating Lebanon in battles it has nothing to do with and on the occasion of May 7, we condemn the party's former and continuous activities,” al-Mustaqbal bloc said in a released statement after the lawmakers' weekly meeting at the Center House.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday snapped back at President Michel Suleiman over the issue of the malfunctioning Turkish power-generating ship Fatmagul Sultan, asking him to help create a court for financial crimes in Lebanon.

At a press conference he held after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, Aoun said he unconditionally backs Suleiman's rhetoric on combating corruption, but urged him to “help us approve the law we had submitted to parliament on creating a special court for trying those accused of financial crimes against the public treasury.”

Lebanese Force chief Geagea and al-Mustaqbal movement leader Saad Hariri have discussed the electoral law during a “lengthy phone conversation,” Geagea's press office said Tuesday.

Geagea and the former prime minister “held an extensive discussion on the latest developments on the electoral law,” it said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati condemned on Tuesday Israel's use of Lebanese airspace to carry out airstrikes on Syria, telling the ambassadors of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members that Lebanon rejects being shoved into the Syrian crisis.

Miqati informed the ambassadors at a meeting at the Grand Serail that was also attended by U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly that the Lebanese Armed Forces were incapable of fully controlling activity on the porous border with Syria for lacking the appropriate equipment.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, who is currently abroad, dispatched on Tuesday Beirut Bishop Boulos Matar to President Michel Suleiman, al-Mustaqbal bloc leader Fouad Saniora and caretaker Minister Wael Abou Faour as part of efforts to resolve the elections crisis.

“We discussed the elections and the electoral law that we are looking forward to in Lebanon,” the bishop said after meeting Saniora.

The Lebanese army's intelligence arrested on Tuesday a Palestinian man who admitted to robbing a currency exchange firm in a Beirut district a day earlier.

The military said in a communique that it arrested Samir Fouad Deaybes, a Palestinian, in the area of al-Aqbiyeh in Tyre.

Regional players, including Hizbullah, are intervening more and more openly in Syria, some emboldened by the chaos created by the conflict, others desperate to prevent the fall of the regime, experts say.

The conflict between President Bashar Assad's government and rebel forces has divided the Middle East, with his allies -- Iran and Hizbullah -- lined up against Gulf states which back the uprising.

The families of the nine Lebanese pilgrims kidnapped in Syria since May last year pressed on Tuesday their demands to release the men despite the “lack of progress” in the case.

The relatives held a sit-in near the Turkish cultural center and the Turkish Airlines offices in downtown Beirut. The state-run National News Agency said they were joined by Syrian laborers.