Israel expressed concern on Saturday after reports emerged that Syrian president Bashar Assad may be losing control over military assets, including air defense base.

According to Israeli channel 10, concern is mounting in Israel over the possibility that Hizbullah will try to move sophisticated weaponry, including Scud missiles, from Syria to Lebanon to protect them in the event of Assad's downfall.

Lebanese leaders mourned on Saturday the death of Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz who died after a battle with illness.

President Michel Suleiman and Speaker Nabih Berri expressed their condolences to Saudi King Abdullah and the Saudi people.

Residents of the border town of Arsal in eastern Lebanon demanded on Saturday the international agencies to assume their tasks and aid the Syrian refugees in the area.

They accused U.N. officials in a statement of "only providing help for 150 Syrian families out of some 600 families."

A group calling itself ‘Raise Your Voice’ hacked on Saturday the official website for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (pcm.gov.lb) and the website of Administrative Reform and Development (omsar.gov.lb), demanding the government to halt electricity rationing during the summer.

“When will we have electricity?” the group asked on the front page.

The Maronite bishops synod backed on Saturday the Baabda Declaration made following the national dialogue held last week, saying it guarantees security stability in Lebanon.

Following a six-day synod held under Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkirki, the bishops said in a statement they have high hopes on the all-party talks held under President Michel Suleiman.

President Michel Suleiman said Saturday that the measures taken by the Lebanese army stem from its keenness on the safety of the residents of the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon.

His statement came after Palestinian factions and religious leaders at Nahr al-Bared urged the Lebanese army leadership to investigate the killing of a Palestinian during a confrontation outside the shantytown.

A Lebanese-born inmate is too mentally ill to be executed for the killings of his wife and brother-in-law, a U.S. judge ruled Friday in a decision that comes just a week after the governor issued a reprieve hours before the man was set to die.

"Abdul Awkal presently lacks the capacity to form a rational understanding as to the reason the state intends to execute him," county Judge Stuart Friedman said. "Abdul Awkal may not be executed unless and until he has been restored to competency."

U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon Robert Watkins warned on Saturday that Lebanese authorities won’t be able to keep the policy of keeping Lebanon at a distance from the Syrian crisis if the situation in the neighboring country worsens.

In an interview with An Nahar daily following a tour to the eastern Bekaa valley, Watkins said the policy has been so far successful. “But it could be difficult to preserve it if the situation deteriorates in Syria.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat advised both the March 8 coalition and the March 14 opposition to steer themselves clear of the Syrian crisis, saying local Lebanese parties won’t be able to change anything in the Syrian crisis.

In an interview with pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat published Saturday, Jumblat said: “No matter what they thought, they won’t be able to change a thing in Syria.”

Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun has expressed fear that Lebanon would witness a new civil war if Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime falls.

“The repercussions of what’s going on in Syria cannot take us to such a war,” Aoun told As Safir daily in an interview published on Saturday. Yet he warned that “the regime’s collapse could lead to a war.”