Hizbullah has hailed Syria's air defenses after they downed an Israeli fighter jet on Saturday, saying it marked the start of a "new strategic era."

"This is the beginning of a new strategic era which puts an end to the violation of Syrian airspace and territory," Hizbullah said in a statement.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Saturday urged for “precaution in Lebanon” following early morning Israeli aggression against Syria and the earlier Israeli threats against Lebanon.

“It seems that there are major disturbances lurking in the region's horizons...It will not be useful to think of separating tracks since the Israelis have already linked them.”

Lebanon's Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Saturday condemning the Israeli raids against Syria and affirmed Damascus' “legitimate right to defend itself against any Israeli attack,” the National News Agency reported.

The statement said “Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil has given instructions to the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York to lodge a complaint with the Security Council against Israel warning against the use of Lebanese airspace to launch attacks against Syria.”

President Michel Aoun discussed with Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri the latest development after the Israeli airstrikes on Syria, the Lebanese Presidency said in a tweet on Saturday.

The remnants of an Israeli rocket that was launched at dawn at Syria, was found in the village of Sarine in the eastern Bekaa while shrapnel were found in the town of Ali Nahri, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

The Israeli air strike was confronted by a surface-to-air missiles on the border of the Eastern Mountain Range, near the Lebanese-Syrian border, NNA added.

Cautious calm prevailed Saturday morning in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh following a night of heavy armed clashes that left one man dead and several others injured, the National News Agency reported.

Lebanon Friday signed its first contract to drill for oil and gas off its coast with a consortium comprising energy giants Total, ENI and Novatek, including in a block disputed by Israel.

The deputy head of the Higher Shiite Islamic Council, Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan voiced calls to launch vigorous campaigns to support Lebanon's right to extract its oil, preserve its borders and sovereignty following Israel's threats against the country, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi held a mass on St. Maroun day at St. Maroun Church in Gemmayyze in the presence of President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri.

Lebanon's Foreign Ministry is taking steps to refute Israel's claim about Block 9 oil field reaching to the international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.