Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani denounced on Monday the Israeli attack on Damascus, pointing out that the Lebanese should save their nation before it slips into a “sedition.”

“The Israeli attack on Damascus reveals the Zionist terrorism and the violations it commits against the sovereignty of countries,” Qabbani said.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called Monday for "a political solution" to the conflict in Syria, after its regime was suspected of using chemical weapons and after two Israeli raids on the country.

Israeli raids on Sunday hit three military sites outside Damascus, the second such reported attack in 48 hours, reportedly targeting weapons bound for Lebanon's Hizbullah which is an ally of President Bashar Assad's regime.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel received on Monday the names of 371 Syrian women detainees to be exchanged with the Lebanese pilgrims abducted in Aazaz, revealing that General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim will start his contacts with the Syrian side over the swap.

"I have received from Ibrahim the list of the 371 Syrian women detainees and I have examined the names in it,” Charbel said in a released statement.

Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam stated that a government that lacks a “main component of the country” will lose its legitimacy, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat Monday.

Sources monitoring the government formation process told the daily that Salam will resign if a main bloc, such as the March 8 camp, quits the cabinet.

A Katyusha rocket fired from Syrian territory landed in the middle of the Hermel town of al-Qasr in the Bekaa on Sunday, state-run National News Agency reported.

The agency did not say whether or not the shelling caused any casualties or damage.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Sunday telephoned Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam and discussed with him the latest security and political developments.

During the phone talks, the two men stressed “the importance of carrying on with the self-dissociation policy towards the internal conflict in Syria and refraining from interference in order to preserve Lebanon's stability, security and safety,” according to a statement issued by Miqati's press office.

President Michel Suleiman on Sunday strongly condemned “the criminal Israeli attacks on Syrian positions and the violation of Lebanese airspace to carry out these attacks that left a number of civilians dead.”

Suleiman said this behavior “is not alien to a common enemy whose policy is based on aggression,” noting that Israel “took advantage of the situations in Syria to carry out its attacks, exactly like it used to act in Lebanon during its plight (civil war).”

Lebanese Democratic Party leader MP Talal Arslan on Sunday condemned the Israeli air strikes on Syria, saying "we're all concerned with" defending the neighboring country.

"Once again Israel has exploited the Arab slumber like it did in 1967 in order to strike the heart of Arabism, the symbol of its resistance and the fortress of confronting colonial schemes,” Arslan said in a press release.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday that apparent Israeli air strikes on Syria showed that peace across the whole region was under threat, and said Lebanon is vulnerable to destabilization.

Hague's comments came after a senior Israeli official said that the Jewish state carried out a pre-dawn attack near Damascus on Sunday targeting Iranian missiles destined for Hizbullah.

Two U.S. military generals held talks with Army chief Gen. Jean Qahwaji during a visit to Beirut, the U.S. Embassy announced on Sunday.

Maj. Gen. William D. Beydler, Director of Strategy, Plans, and Policy for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and Brig. Gen. Guy T. Cosentino, who is the Deputy Director for Politico-Military Affairs (Middle East) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also met with other senior military officers to discuss bilateral cooperation, said the statement.