Hizbullah may begin targeting Israeli officials in retaliation against Monday's Israeli strike against a party target near the Lebanese-Syrian border, reported Israel's Haaretz daily on Wednesday.

The party may begin targeting senior Israeli officials, sources told the daily.

Nigeria's Ambassador Amos Oluwole Idowu stressed on Wednesday that the his country is following up the case of the abducted two Lebanese nationals in the Nigerian town of Jama'are in Bauchi State.

“The case is linked to the security situation and is very delicate,” the ambassador told As Safir newspaper.

Speaker Nabih Berri suggested that the government's policy statement include a reference to Lebanon distancing itself from regional crises instead of mentioning the “Baabda Declaration” as a way to end the current deadlock on the statement discussions, reported al-Joumhouria on Wednesday.

He explained that the March 14 camp's insistence to include the Baabda Declaration in the statement will force the March 8 camp to insist on including the “army-people-resistance” equation that the former rejects.

President Michel Suleiman will not “stand as an obstacle” should the committee tasked with devising a government policy statement succeed in its mission, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Wednesday.

To that end the president has reportedly abandoned his insistence to include the Baabda Declaration in the statement.

The head of the Lebanese Democratic Party, MP Talal Arslan, was urged to boost security measures after security agencies obtained information that he might be the target of an assassination bid.

According to al-Akhbar newspaper published on Wednesday, Arslan was advised to take extra precautions and increase his security measures.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun stressed on Wednesday that the political arch-foes should swiftly draft the cabinet's policy statement, warning of any delay.

“The government has to start preparing for the upcoming presidential elections as soon as possible,” Aoun said in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will return to Paris next week for talks on helping Lebanon cope with the overspill from the conflict in neighboring Syria, a U.S. diplomat said Tuesday.

In a letter to his newly named Lebanese counterpart, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced Thursday that the next meeting of the International Support Group for Lebanon group would take place on March 5.

A reported Israeli air raid on Hizbullah near the Lebanese-Syrian border on Monday evening would be the latest of several aimed at preventing arms transfers to the group, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad:

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The panel drafting the ministerial policy statement finished its fifth meeting on Tuesday evening without managing to reach an agreement on the clause related to resistance against Israel.

"Discussions will be resumed tomorrow, Wednesday at 5:00 p.m.," the members of the committee said in a concise communique.

Nearly 2,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are in danger of starving to death if they do not receive immediate treatment, UNICEF said Tuesday, warning of a looming malnutrition crisis.

"Malnutrition is a new, silent threat among refugees in Lebanon," said Annamaria Laurini, the U.N. children agency's representative in Beirut.