Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour stressed that Lebanon is not violating United Nations Security Council resolution 1701, saying Israel has violated the resolution “tens of thousands of times” since its adoption in 2006.

He told the daily: “Hizbullah's unmanned drone that flew over Israel recently does not violate the resolution.”

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's acknowledgment of the party's possession of a drone has renewed interest in the possible Israeli involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

Sources following the investigation noted to the daily Nasrallah's 2010 conference during which he presented images obtained from Israeli drones that followed the slain former premier's travel route in Lebanon.

Israel has warned Finland that it will stop a boat with pro-Palestinian activists on board by force if it tries to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip, a foreign ministry spokesman said Saturday.

"The foreign ministry has been informed by Israel that it would intervene if the ship Estelle which is flying the Finnish flag tries to break (Israel's) blockade against Gaza from the sea," spokesman Risto Piipponen said on state television.

Hamas described on Saturday Hizbullah's drone that penetrated Israeli airspace as a “great strategic accomplishment.”

“Hizbullah is carrying out a psychological political battle against Israel,” senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said.

Dozens of olive trees were set ablaze in a Palestinian village early on Saturday, in an attack that villagers and Palestinian security officials blamed on Jewish settlers.

Residents of Qaryut village, 15 kilometers (nine miles) south of the West Bank city of Nablus, said that the fires had been set at several different spots simultaneously and security officials said the evidence pointed to an arson attack by residents of the neighboring settlement of Eli.

The army detonated on Saturday a cluster bomb left over from the 2006 Israeli aggression on Lebanon in al-Bayader area in Shebaa, the National News Agency reported.

According to the news agency, a citizen has detected the bomb in a field and informed immediately the army about it.

Israel is determined to implement the lessons it learned from the Second Lebanon War, and to define its targets more clearly, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Saturday.

The report pointed out that Hizbullah’s launch of the Iranian-made drone, which penetrated Israeli airspace last Saturday, served as a reminder of the complicated balance of deterrent power between the sides.

The Israeli air force launched attacks at three sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, the military said, hours after a rocket fired from the enclave exploded near a house in southern Israel.

A statement from the army said that its "aircraft targeted a terror activity site in the northern Gaza Strip, and two terror activity sites in the central Gaza Strip. Direct hits were confirmed."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denied a Friday report that he had offered to quit the occupied Golan Heights in exchange for peace with Syria in U.S.-mediated negotiations last year.

According to Yediot Aharonot daily which broke the story, talks fizzled out without any agreement as domestic protests that erupted in mid-March 2011 against Syrian President Bashar Assad's rule spiraled into civil war.

President Michel Suleiman stressed on Friday the need for devising a defense strategy that meets the demands of the army and its duties to defend the country and national interests, reported the National News Agency.

He said: “Sending a drone over enemy territories demonstrates the need for a defense strategy that can organize the capabilities of the resistance in defending Lebanon.”