Israel's military has deployed a rocket defense system to the north of the country following reported Israeli airstrikes in Syria targeting weapons believed to be destined for Hizbullah.

The military said it moved two Iron Dome batteries Sunday as part of "ongoing situational assessments."

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour urged the Arab League on Sunday to take a “decisive stance” from the recent Israeli airstrikes in Syria.

Mansour condemned “the assault and the silence of the international community on the repeated Israeli aggressions on more than one Arab country.”

Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Beirut Elias Audeh called on Sunday for the elections to be held on time and for the Lebanese to unify around President Michel Suleiman.

“Criticizing the president is similar to cursing your father,” Audeh said in his Easter sermon at the St. George cathedral in downtown Beirut.

Speaker Nabih Berri has vowed to force lawmakers to hold intense talks at the parliament for several days this month until they reach agreement on a new electoral law.

“You will see what I will do on May 15. I will let MPs sleep at the parliament for three or four days until they come up with a law,” pan-Arab daily al-Hayat quoted him as saying.

Former MP Elie Ferzli, who has been tasked by Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun to discuss with Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea the electoral law, said Sunday that the Orthodox Gathering proposal remains the best option if MPs failed to agree on a new vote plan.

In remarks to Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3), Ferzli described his meeting with Geagea in Maarab on Saturday as “positive.”

Premier-designate Tammam Salam has rejected an alleged request by Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement to give them veto power in the new government, hinting that they were seeking to paralyze the cabinet before its formation.

In remarks to An Nahar daily published Sunday, Salam criticized the request for veto power, saying “no matter what their excuses are, those demanding it are talking about obstruction even before the formation of the cabinet, which should instead be doing everything it can to benefit the nation.”

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour asked Lebanon's ambassador to the U.N. late Saturday to file an “urgent” complaint with the Security Council over Israel's violations of Lebanese airspace.

A statement said that Mansour asked Nawwaf Salam to submit the complaint against Israel “over its flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty and related international resolutions mainly resolution 1701.”

Lebanese pilgrims, who have been held hostage in Syria since May last year, appeared on a videotape broadcast by two television stations on Saturday and Sunday, as their families warned that they "do not want to see any Turk" in Lebanon after May 22 should Turkey fail to secure the release of their loved ones.

The men were seen talking in the footage but the accompanying audio was inaudible when the video was broadcast by al-Jazeera satellite TV station on Saturday.

Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be on their way to Hizbullah, officials and activists said.

The attack, the second in three days, signaled a sharp escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's bloody civil war. Syria's state media reported that Israeli missiles struck a military and scientific research center near the Syrian capital and caused casualties.

The deputy head of the Higher Islamic Council Omar Mesqawi called on Saturday for an extraordinary HIC meeting to be held on Tuesday, May 7 after Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani held a meeting for the newly elected council.

“If we were not allowed to enter the council's meetings hall, we will hold the meeting at the residence of head of the Administrative and Financial Committee Bassam Barghout to take the necessary decisions,” Mesqawi said.