Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said overnight that his group now has twice as many precision-guided missiles as it had a year ago, noting that Israel's efforts to prevent it from acquiring them have failed.

Nasrallah, in an end-of-year interview with the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV, said his group has the capability to strike anywhere in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of raising the issue of assassinating him with the U.S. administration.

“According to our information, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman raised during his visit to Washington the issue of assassinating me,” Nasrallah said in an interview on al-Mayadeen TV.

The Lebanese army said Sunday it had conducted raids and arrested two Lebanese men and six Syrians as part of an investigation into the torching of a Syrian refugee camp in the norther region of Minieh.

The statement said the Lebanese men had fired weapons into the air and torched the tents.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lashed out at those obstructing the formation of the new government and promised that he will soon resume his mediation in a bid to break the deadlock.

“I warn all those obstructing the government’s formation, be them near or far, that they bear the responsibility of putting all state institutions on the track of paralysis, one after another, because a state whose authorities are not complete and integrated would collapse in a way or another,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri left Beirut Sunday for a family visit abroad, his press office said.

Al-Jadeed television meanwhile reported that Hariri will first visit the United Arab Emirates before heading to Saudi Arabia.

The sound of an explosion was heard at dawn on Saturday at the Lebanese border, off the town of Adaisseh in Marjayoun district, when an Israeli army patrol crossed the technical fence during below the Meskav-Aam military outpost, media reports said.

Caretaker Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi said he has no right to interfere with the investigating judge, nor speak to the media about the probe into the Beirut port blast, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

“For the sake of secrecy of investigations, I can not speak to the media about the probe into the Beirut port blast,” said Fahmi in remarks after meeting Maronite Patriarch Beshara el-Rahi where he expressed well wishes on Christmas.

The Civil Defense rescue team announced on Saturday that its members continue to carry out the tasks assigned to them at Beirut port, 145 days after the deadly explosion that ripped the capital.

The Italian authorities said they confiscated a shipment of amphetamine reportedly linked to Hizbullah, the Italian Nova agency said.

MP Assem Araji voiced calls on Saturday to stop all flights coming from the UK over the new strain of coronavirus, warning of its high infectious capability, al-Anbaa daily reported on Saturday.