Syrian mortar rounds, apparently fired during fighting between government forces and rebels, fell in Israeli-held territory early on Tuesday, the Israeli military said.

The Israeli army said that an undisclosed number of rounds fell on the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from neighboring Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and unilaterally annexed in 1981.

Soldiers shot dead a child on Tuesday in Syria's Aleppo province when troops targeted the car she was in, after a bloody day in which 116 people, including 12 children, were killed, a rights watchdog said.

The young girl was in a car on the motorway that links the northern commercial hub of Aleppo to Damascus after midnight when the attack happened, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Speaker Nabih Berri expressed belief on Tuesday that the rival political parties in Lebanon are gearing up for the 2014 presidential elections.

“The battle over the 2013 electoral draft law is linked to the presidential elections... It reveals the votes of the newly elected MPs,” Berri said in comments published in al-Akhbar newspaper.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati shrugged off fears of Hizbullah's involvement in any future war between Israel and Iran, saying the party is wise and has pledged to steer Lebanon clear of regional conflicts.

“Hizbullah is lately behaving very wisely,” Miqati told reporters in New York. “It has given its consent to the Baabda Declaration that states keeping Lebanon away from the policies of axes and regional and international conflicts.”

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said Monday that he opposes any foreign military intervention in the Syria conflict but believes President Bashar Assad must go.

In an interview with PBS television's Charlie Rose ahead of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, Morsi said the diplomatic quartet of Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey could help end the 18-month-old conflict.

A global children's aid agency warned on Tuesday that Syrian children are being "badly traumatized" after witnessing killings, torture and other atrocities in their country's brutal conflict.

Save the Children said it has collected "shocking testimony" revealing that "children have been the targets of brutal attacks, seen the deaths of parents, siblings and other children, and have witnessed and experienced torture."

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that the Syrian civil war is worsening and the country faces a growing food crisis, envoys said.

Brahimi told the 15-nation council that the Syrian government estimates there are 5,000 foreign fighters in the country and is increasingly portraying the conflict as a "foreign conspiracy," envoys at the closed meeting told AFP.

Syria's Ministry of Information on Monday denied the sacking of the country's ambassador to Lebanon and said a previous email announcement was a result of hacking, state television reported.

"The email account of the ministry was hacked in order to publish inaccurate information" about the reported dismissal of the Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali, the ministry said in a statement carried by state television.

Some 100 Lebanese Islamists opposed to the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad held a protest on Monday to denounce the arrest of five Syrians by the Lebanese security forces.

The Syrians were arrested on Sunday, after they crossed into Lebanon via Mount Hermon on the border between Lebanon and Syria, a security official told AFP.

Syrian warplanes targeted several residential districts of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, killing at least five people including three children from one family, a rights watchdog said.

The five were killed and others were wounded in the central district of Maadi in the country's second city and commercial hub, a focal point for the fighting since mid-July, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.