Prime Minister Saad Hariri replied to remarks made by Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Jumblat on Saturday, telling him to “leave al-Mustaqbal Movement alone.”

“I wish you would leave al-Mustaqbal Movement alone, Walid Beik, and stop blaming us for your problems,” said Hariri in a tweet.

The Lebanese Forces and Free Patriotic Movement have not yet disclosed whether they will re-elect Speaker Nabih Berrii for a sixth term, as they prepare for consultative meetings with their party members.

The formation of a new Cabinet in Lebanon that represents all factions should take place quickly because of growing regional tensions and the fragile country's struggling economy, Speaker Nabih Berri said.

Berri spoke in an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Beirut days after Lebanon held its first parliamentary elections in nine years. In the vote, Berri's Amal group, along with its allies including Hizbullah, won more than a third of the seats, giving them the power to veto any legislation against them in the future.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea received at his residence in Maarab on Wednesday, Emirati Ambassador to Lebanon Hamad al-Shamsi and Chargé d'Affaires of the Saudi Embassy in Beirut Walid Bukhari.

Shamsi and Bukhari congratulated Geagea on his win in Sunday’s elections, said NNA.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Wednesday congratulated women of Lebanon for winning six parliament seats in Sunday’s general elections, up from just four in the 2009-era parliament.

“We congratulate the women of Lebanon for winning 6 parliamentary seats, and congratulations for al-Mustaqbal Movement for winning half of these seats,” said Hariri on Twitter.

In the wake of the Israeli air strikes on military targets in Syria, Israeli forces have been on high alert along the border line of the occupied Shebaa Farms adjacent to the Golan Heights section in Syria, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Parliament speaker Nabih Berri said that the general election's results vindicated a formula in which both the army and Hizbullah guarantee the country's protection.

Polls held on Sunday, the first in nine years, saw Hizbullah's allies in parliament garner enough seats to block any attempt by its political foes in parliament to make it disarm.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, the head of President Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, has announced that the FPM won at least 29 seats in parliamentary elections, making it the largest bloc in the assembly.

The United Nations on Monday urged Lebanon's politicians to act responsibly to protect Lebanon's stability following elections that saw Hizbullah and its allies make gains.

"We hope that all Lebanese political stakeholders will continue to act responsibly in the days following polling to protect Lebanon's stability, which should include the swift formation of a government," said U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

The Israeli army carried out construction works in the occupied parts of the southern town of Abbassiyeh, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Two bulldozers started digging ditches and setting up dirt blocks in the occupied part of the town, NNA.