Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that his country is ready for any act of provocation by Hizbullah over the deepening crisis in Syria.
During a meeting on Thursday with 15 U.N. envoys in New York, He expressed concern that Hizbullah will use a provocation against Israel as a means of distracting the world from violence in Syria.

Three bombs exploded in Bab al-Tebbaneh region in Tripoli Thursday night marking an increased tension with Jabal Mohsen in the past few days.
“Three bombs exploded in Bab el Tebbaneh” MTV reported.

Two Syrian nationals were badly wounded on Thursday by a landmine at the illegal border-crossing of al-Buni in northern Lebanon, reported the National News Agency.
Ahmed Mustapha Khodr and Ahmad Abdul Karim were injured while attempting to cross the border into Wadi Khaled from the Syrian town of al-Mushayrfeh.

Security forces killed 126 people in Syria on Thursday, 107 of them in Homs in the latest government blitz on the besieged city, said Local Coordination Committees.
Six people were killed in Maarat al-Naaman in Idlib, ten others in Reef Damascus, two in Ain al-Arab Koubani in Aleppo, and one in Latakia.

Head of the Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc, ex-PM Fouad Saniora, on Wednesday stressed that the Mustaqbal Movement supports “the deployment of the Lebanese army on Lebanon’s borders.”
After talks at his office with Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji, Saniora told MTV: “The Mustaqbal Movement’s stance is clear in demanding the deployment of the Lebanese army on Lebanon’s border in order to reassure the residents and protect them from all the attempts we’re witnessing.

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak arrived on Tuesday in Riyadh at the start of a two-day visit to the OPEC kingpin which comes as Seoul seeks to diversify its oil sources.
"South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak arrived with his delegation in Riyadh today in an official visit to the kingdom," Saudi state news agency SPA reported.

Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday stressed that “there will be no new government in Lebanon,” noting that contacts were underway to resolve a cabinet crisis that could force the collapse of Premier Najib Miqati’s government.
“We are keen on the survival of the government,” Nasrallah said in a televised address commemorating the birth of the Prophet Mohammed, adding that the current cabinet was providing political stability and security during this period.

The Mustaqbal bloc condemned on Tuesday the government’s practices and the ongoing “struggle for power” among its members.
It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: “Meddling with the delicate distribution of power that has been designated by the constitution will not solve the dispute.”

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun criticized on Tuesday President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s practices, saying that they are violating the Change and Reform bloc ministers’ efforts to exercise the rights they have been granted by the constitution.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting: “Suleiman and Miqati are violating our rights in the administrative appointments.”
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Tuesday stressed that the “sweeping popular revolutions in several Arab countries, topped by Syria, do not need lecturing from anyone.”
“If only the Iranian ambassador (to Lebanon, Ghazanfar Roknabadi,) would disassociate himself from making statements about the Syrian crisis, he would perhaps help alleviate the Syrian people's suffering,” Jumblat said.
