Deputy head of Hizbullah's Executive Council Sheikh Nabil Qaouq on Sunday stressed that the party will “reject any ministerial policy statement that would satisfy Israel.”

“We reject any ministerial policy statement that would satisfy Israel because we don't want to give up the reason behind Lebanon's strength, which is the resistance,” Qaouq said during a memorial service in the southern town of Houla.

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour on Sunday announced that “there is an attempt to make further political contacts in a bid to reach some settlement over the ministerial policy statement,” noting that “everyone agrees on the right to resistance.”

“The main point of contention in the panel drafting the policy statement is the stance over the weapons of the resistance and their relation with the state, not over the resistance in its entirety,” Abou Faour, the panel's spokesman, said.

Phalange Party Central Committee Coordinator MP Sami Gemayel contacted on Sunday President Michel Suleiman, voicing solidarity with him over his national stances.

Gemayel expressed resentment over the “unfair campaign” against the President during the telephone conversation.

Gunfire by Israeli army targeted the southern town of Ramia, state-run National News Agency reported, saying that no casualties were reported.

According to NNA, Israeli troops were carrying out military drills in al-Bayad position near the southern town of Ramia in Bint Jbeil region.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi called on Sunday the political arch-foes to swiftly draft the cabinet's ministerial policy statement and excluding the main points of contention.

“The policy statement shouldn't resolve the controversial points but merely include the constitutional principles and the projects that the cabinet considers a priority,” al-Rahi said in his sermon during a mass he celebrated in Bkirki.

Israel's diplomatic missions and embassies across the world went on alert on Sunday following a raid by the Jewish state on a Hizbullah post in the border town of Janta.

Israel has reportedly raised security level at its embassies and diplomatic missions around the world fearing a possible retaliation by Hizbuulah, Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported.

The army detained on Sunday a wanted suspect in al-Mankoubeen area in the northern city of Tripoli after an attempt by some residents to smuggle him.

According to the state-run National News Agency, a quarrel occurred between the army and a wanted suspect on the international highway in al-Badawi, which links Tripoli with the northern district of Akkar and the Syrian border.

The alleged plot to assassinate Speaker Nabih Berri aims at destabilizing the country and inciting a Sunni-Shiite strife, the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on Sunday.

AMAL Movement, Development and Liberation bloc, MP Ali Khreis told the daily that Berri's assassination bid aims at causing chaos in Lebanon and creating a Sunni-Shiite strife.

Hizullah is seeking to prevent any attempts to renew the tenure of President Michel Suleiman by targeting him directly in its statements, media reports said on Sunday.

Sources said in comments published in An Nahar newspaper on Sunday that the strong rhetoric that Hizbullah used in its statement on Saturday to reply to Suleiman's remarks was “unprecedented.”

Head of al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc MP Fouad Saniora called on lawmakers not to engage in an argument with the March 8 alliance over the controversial ministerial policy statement.

According to the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat, published on Sunday, the Mustaqbal movement wants to avoid further arguments with its political foes.