NNA - Caretaker Foreign Minister, Adnan Mansour, gave a word on Saturday during a meeting of the Jerusalem Committee in Marrakech in Morocco whereby he said that Arab and international resolutions did little to hinder Israel's continuous transgressions on Quds, which entails stricter decisions that need to be respected and fully implemented by Israel. According to Mansour, Israel has been expanding its presence in Jerusalem since 1967, upping the number of Jews from zero to 180 thousand. Israel also transgressed on the sanctity of Al Aqsa Mosque and went as far as digging underneath it to compromise its foundation. "Condemnation and denouements are a thing of the past...what Quds, Al Aqsa Mosque and Palestine require of all of us...is strong will...and preventive measures that force Israel to respect international resolutions." Separately, Mansour met with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Aabass, and Moroccan Foreign Minister, Salaheddine Mezouar, =============R.Z.

NNA - Head of Iran's Shura Council Ali Larijani affirmed Friday that Iran would do whatever it takes to defend Hezbollah against any attack. Fars news agency quoted Larijani as saying "Iran will certainly be supportive of Hezbollah, because it is the pride of the Islamic world that has been breaking the back of Israel." ========D.K.

NNA - Future bloc MP, Atef Majdalani, on Thursday ratcheted up the pressure on Hezbollah to show commitment to Baabda declaration. "Today is an exceptional day in Lebanon's history. An era of justice has begun and the times of impunity are over and done with," Majdalani added in an interview with the Voice of Lebanon radio station. At the onset of today's STL (Special Tribunal for Lebanon) session, the lawmaker seized the opportunity to urge Hezbollah to dissociate Lebanon form neighboring conflicts. "The tripartite formula is no longer valid, especially that Hezbollah stands today against the Syrian people, not Israel," he added. ================R.H.

NNA - Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs, Adnan Mansour, is scheduled to leave Lebanon tomorrow Thursday to attend the meetings of al-Quds Committee in Morocco. The meeting was called forth by Moroccan King Mohammad VI to discuss the latest developments in the city of Quds, particularly after Israel has ventured into digging works in the vicinity of al-Aqsa Mosque and building new colonial settlements. Lebanon's official delegation will include Ambassador Charbel Wehbe from the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Lebanese Ambassador to Morocco Mustafa Hamdan, and Consul Fouad Khazzaqa. ==============R.A.H.

NNA - A number of Israeli soldiers crossed the barbed wire fence on Wednesday at dawn and deployed in Wadi Qatmoun near the Blue Line off Rmeish in Bint Jbeil, according to NNA correspondent. ==========A.A.M

NNA - (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday rebuked Israel for comments attributed to the Israeli defense minister suggesting that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace is messianic and obsessive. "The remarks of the Defense Minister (Moshe Yaalon) if accurate are offensive and inappropriate especially given all that the United States is doing to support Israel's security needs," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a brief statement that constituted a rare rebuke to close ally Israel. She made the comment after Israel's biggest-selling newspaper quoted Yaalon as saying "John Kerry - who has come to us determined and is acting out of an incomprehensible obsession and a messianic feeling - cannot teach me a single thing about the conflict with the Palestinians." Psaki issued the statement in Rome, where Kerry made a brief stop before traveling on to Kuwait. "Secretary Kerry and his team including General (John) Allen have been working day and night to try to promote a secure peace for Israel because of the Secretary's deep concern for Israel's future," she added. "To question his motives and distort his proposals is not something we would expect from the Defense Minister of a close ally." ==============

NNA - No feasible agreement or peace with Israel is possible without East Jerusalem as capital of the Palestinian State, Mahmoud Abbas spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh, stressed in a press release in Ramallah today. The least the Palestinian Authority (P.A.), would agree to, is the full recovery of East Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital without which there will be no negotiations, Abu Rudeineh retorted. We shall not negotiate without the return of 1948 refugees and the release of all detainees in Israeli jails, he concluded. ========G.G./R.K.

NNA - An Israeli air strike wounded two Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical and security sources said. "Two Palestinians were hit and injured by an Israeli drone while they were riding on a motorbike east of Khan Yunis," Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Agence France Presse. Palestinian security sources described the two as "militants, without saying to which group they belonged. The Israeli army confirmed the strike in a statement, saying it had "intercepted terrorists during their final preparations to launch rockets towards Israel. ==================

NNA - Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Adnan Mansour said he had sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with a complaint against Israel, against the backdrop of spying on Lebanon. The complaint was attached with a CD containing the coordinates and bugging devices planted by Israel on the Lebanese-Palestinian border, "which constitutes a flagrant violation of the international law and a continuous aggression against the Lebanese territory, the people and the security and military forces." Mansour also addressed a letter in this context to the Foreign Ministers of the Security Council's 15 non-permanent states and a note to the Secretary- General of the Arab League Nabil ElArabi, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the head of the Non-Aligned Movement and the coordinator of Foreign Affairs of the European Union Catherine Ashton. Mansour stressed that "this aggression carried out by Israel is a violation of international laws and relevant international resolutions, in particular resolution 1701." Asked about the Geneva II, Mansour replied that Lebanon will attend it and "whoever the Lebanese Foreign Minister is, he will be heading the Lebanese delegation to the Geneva Conference." =========D.K.

NNA - An Islamic Jihad militant was killed near Gaza City on Wednesday in what medics and his family said was an Israeli drone strike, AFP reported. But the Israeli military denied carrying out any strike on Gaza, with a spokeswoman saying she was unaware of any such incidents in the area. "A Palestinian militant was killed by an Israeli drone in Shejaiyeh," said Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry, referring to a district near the Israeli border with Gaza. Family sources in the neighborhood said Ijlah was a militant from Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigade and was killed by a drone. The militant group confirmed Ijlah was one of its members. But the Israeli military denied any involvement. "We did not strike in Gaza today and we are unaware of any incident involving tanks or other shooting," the spokeswoman told Agence France Presse. ===============

NNA - The Future Parliamentary bloc on Wednesday demonstrated stanch commitment to Lebanon's dissociation policy from neighboring developments and pushed for the formation of a cabinet that's capable of bringing internal political conflicts to a halt by means of mitigating losses and damages. The Future bloc's statement came in the wake of its weekly session under the chairmanship of Former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. The bloc vehemently condemned yesterday's Haret Hreik blast and offered its heartfelt condolences to the families of the blast victims. Future MPs also mourned the loss of innocent lives in Arsal and Hermel "at the hands of treachery and terror." "The Future bloc demands a comprehensive and transparent investigation into these non-humanitarian crimes," the statement read, adding that the Lebanese could no longer bear the pressure accompanied by the Syrian calamity. "Lebanon will never regain a normal pace of life as long as Hezbollah goes on in its destructive and tragic war in Syria, and keeps ignoring national consensus and coexistence," the statement added. Moreover, the Future bloc asserted that it has reconsidered its participation in the coming cabinet in light of Hezbollah's softening stance concerning the third veto power and giving back the Lebanese President and Prime Minister their constitutional prerogatives to form a cabinet, as well as a fair rotation of portfolios. In its statement, the Future bloc also reiterated its unyielding stance regarding the new cabinet. "We utterly refuse the so-called third veto power," the statement read, to mention as well the bloc's stanch refusal of having the tripartite people-Army-Resistance formula be included in the new cabinet's ministerial statement. "The Future bloc also considers Israel Lebanon's ultimate enemy," conferees agreed, highlighting the importance of fully implementing International Security Resolution #1701. The bloc also stressed that the new cabinet's statement has to demonstrate commitment to Baabda declaration, as well as full and comprehensive rotation of cabinet portfolios. As for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's trail proceedings in The Hague, the Future bloc sounded startled with the crime evidence that the tribunal had shared with the public thus far. "The launch of the STL sessions and the facts that are being shared with the public opinion are an evident proof that the times of impunity are over and done with. Criminals should be aware of the fact that they will never get away with their heinous acts and that their punishment is inevitable," the statement added. ==================R.H.

NNA - 25 Israeli soldiers passed on Tuesday the barbed wire in Wazzani and deployed in the eastern side of the river, according to NNA field reporter. ==========A.A.M

NNA - "We shall reply to Saad Hariri's utterance in kind," Hezbollah deputy of the House Nawwaf Moussawi told a group of supporters from Dhayra village in south Lebanon on Sunday. "We shall greet them all with a better salute at a time when the Lebanese realized at last the need for national unity in the face of Israel," he added. "As Lebanon is still in need of a consensual government, we urge them to join an ingathering cabinet capable of securing fair representation for all political constituencies, and that no serious hurdles obstruct the rise of such a much-desired government," Moussawi concluded. ============ G.G/ N.AF/R.Z.

NNA - Caretaker Foreign Minister, Adnan Mansour, gave a word on Saturday during a meeting of the Jerusalem Committee in Marrakech in Morocco whereby he said that Arab and international resolutions did little to hinder Israel's continuous transgressions on Quds, which entails stricter decisions that need to be respected and fully implemented by Israel. According to Mansour, Israel has been expanding its presence in Jerusalem since 1967, upping the number of Jews from zero to 180 thousand. Israel also transgressed on the sanctity of Al Aqsa Mosque and went as far as digging underneath it to compromise its foundation. "Condemnation and denouements are a thing of the past...what Quds, Al Aqsa Mosque and Palestine require of all of us...is strong will...and preventive measures that force Israel to respect international resolutions." Separately, Mansour met with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Aabass, and Moroccan Foreign Minister, Salaheddine Mezouar, =============R.Z.

NNA - MP Hani Qobeissy, member of Development and Liberation parliamentary bloc, considered that only the union of Lebanese and political agreement at the national level can protect the country. He recalled, during a ceremony in Kfar Hatta, that the only enemy of Lebanon was Israel, regretting that some parties were still trying to introduce discord in the country to dismantle its structure based on coexistence. The member then stressed the importance of returning to dialogue in order to reach an agreement so that each party could rise to its responsibility. ==============R.Z.

NNA - Head of Iran's Shura Council Ali Larijani affirmed Friday that Iran would do whatever it takes to defend Hezbollah against any attack. Fars news agency quoted Larijani as saying "Iran will certainly be supportive of Hezbollah, because it is the pride of the Islamic world that has been breaking the back of Israel." ========D.K.

NNA - Future bloc MP, Atef Majdalani, on Thursday ratcheted up the pressure on Hezbollah to show commitment to Baabda declaration. "Today is an exceptional day in Lebanon's history. An era of justice has begun and the times of impunity are over and done with," Majdalani added in an interview with the Voice of Lebanon radio station. At the onset of today's STL (Special Tribunal for Lebanon) session, the lawmaker seized the opportunity to urge Hezbollah to dissociate Lebanon form neighboring conflicts. "The tripartite formula is no longer valid, especially that Hezbollah stands today against the Syrian people, not Israel," he added. ================R.H.

NNA - Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs, Adnan Mansour, is scheduled to leave Lebanon tomorrow Thursday to attend the meetings of al-Quds Committee in Morocco. The meeting was called forth by Moroccan King Mohammad VI to discuss the latest developments in the city of Quds, particularly after Israel has ventured into digging works in the vicinity of al-Aqsa Mosque and building new colonial settlements. Lebanon's official delegation will include Ambassador Charbel Wehbe from the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Lebanese Ambassador to Morocco Mustafa Hamdan, and Consul Fouad Khazzaqa. ==============R.A.H.

NNA - A number of Israeli soldiers crossed the barbed wire fence on Wednesday at dawn and deployed in Wadi Qatmoun near the Blue Line off Rmeish in Bint Jbeil, according to NNA correspondent. ==========A.A.M

NNA - (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday rebuked Israel for comments attributed to the Israeli defense minister suggesting that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace is messianic and obsessive. "The remarks of the Defense Minister (Moshe Yaalon) if accurate are offensive and inappropriate especially given all that the United States is doing to support Israel's security needs," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a brief statement that constituted a rare rebuke to close ally Israel. She made the comment after Israel's biggest-selling newspaper quoted Yaalon as saying "John Kerry - who has come to us determined and is acting out of an incomprehensible obsession and a messianic feeling - cannot teach me a single thing about the conflict with the Palestinians." Psaki issued the statement in Rome, where Kerry made a brief stop before traveling on to Kuwait. "Secretary Kerry and his team including General (John) Allen have been working day and night to try to promote a secure peace for Israel because of the Secretary's deep concern for Israel's future," she added. "To question his motives and distort his proposals is not something we would expect from the Defense Minister of a close ally." ==============

NNA - No feasible agreement or peace with Israel is possible without East Jerusalem as capital of the Palestinian State, Mahmoud Abbas spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh, stressed in a press release in Ramallah today. The least the Palestinian Authority (P.A.), would agree to, is the full recovery of East Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital without which there will be no negotiations, Abu Rudeineh retorted. We shall not negotiate without the return of 1948 refugees and the release of all detainees in Israeli jails, he concluded. ========G.G./R.K.

NNA - An Israeli air strike wounded two Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical and security sources said. "Two Palestinians were hit and injured by an Israeli drone while they were riding on a motorbike east of Khan Yunis," Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Agence France Presse. Palestinian security sources described the two as "militants, without saying to which group they belonged. The Israeli army confirmed the strike in a statement, saying it had "intercepted terrorists during their final preparations to launch rockets towards Israel. ==================

NNA - Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Adnan Mansour said he had sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with a complaint against Israel, against the backdrop of spying on Lebanon. The complaint was attached with a CD containing the coordinates and bugging devices planted by Israel on the Lebanese-Palestinian border, "which constitutes a flagrant violation of the international law and a continuous aggression against the Lebanese territory, the people and the security and military forces." Mansour also addressed a letter in this context to the Foreign Ministers of the Security Council's 15 non-permanent states and a note to the Secretary- General of the Arab League Nabil ElArabi, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the head of the Non-Aligned Movement and the coordinator of Foreign Affairs of the European Union Catherine Ashton. Mansour stressed that "this aggression carried out by Israel is a violation of international laws and relevant international resolutions, in particular resolution 1701." Asked about the Geneva II, Mansour replied that Lebanon will attend it and "whoever the Lebanese Foreign Minister is, he will be heading the Lebanese delegation to the Geneva Conference." =========D.K.

NNA - An Islamic Jihad militant was killed near Gaza City on Wednesday in what medics and his family said was an Israeli drone strike, AFP reported. But the Israeli military denied carrying out any strike on Gaza, with a spokeswoman saying she was unaware of any such incidents in the area. "A Palestinian militant was killed by an Israeli drone in Shejaiyeh," said Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry, referring to a district near the Israeli border with Gaza. Family sources in the neighborhood said Ijlah was a militant from Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigade and was killed by a drone. The militant group confirmed Ijlah was one of its members. But the Israeli military denied any involvement. "We did not strike in Gaza today and we are unaware of any incident involving tanks or other shooting," the spokeswoman told Agence France Presse. ===============

NNA - The Future Parliamentary bloc on Wednesday demonstrated stanch commitment to Lebanon's dissociation policy from neighboring developments and pushed for the formation of a cabinet that's capable of bringing internal political conflicts to a halt by means of mitigating losses and damages. The Future bloc's statement came in the wake of its weekly session under the chairmanship of Former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. The bloc vehemently condemned yesterday's Haret Hreik blast and offered its heartfelt condolences to the families of the blast victims. Future MPs also mourned the loss of innocent lives in Arsal and Hermel "at the hands of treachery and terror." "The Future bloc demands a comprehensive and transparent investigation into these non-humanitarian crimes," the statement read, adding that the Lebanese could no longer bear the pressure accompanied by the Syrian calamity. "Lebanon will never regain a normal pace of life as long as Hezbollah goes on in its destructive and tragic war in Syria, and keeps ignoring national consensus and coexistence," the statement added. Moreover, the Future bloc asserted that it has reconsidered its participation in the coming cabinet in light of Hezbollah's softening stance concerning the third veto power and giving back the Lebanese President and Prime Minister their constitutional prerogatives to form a cabinet, as well as a fair rotation of portfolios. In its statement, the Future bloc also reiterated its unyielding stance regarding the new cabinet. "We utterly refuse the so-called third veto power," the statement read, to mention as well the bloc's stanch refusal of having the tripartite people-Army-Resistance formula be included in the new cabinet's ministerial statement. "The Future bloc also considers Israel Lebanon's ultimate enemy," conferees agreed, highlighting the importance of fully implementing International Security Resolution #1701. The bloc also stressed that the new cabinet's statement has to demonstrate commitment to Baabda declaration, as well as full and comprehensive rotation of cabinet portfolios. As for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's trail proceedings in The Hague, the Future bloc sounded startled with the crime evidence that the tribunal had shared with the public thus far. "The launch of the STL sessions and the facts that are being shared with the public opinion are an evident proof that the times of impunity are over and done with. Criminals should be aware of the fact that they will never get away with their heinous acts and that their punishment is inevitable," the statement added. ==================R.H.

NNA - 25 Israeli soldiers passed on Tuesday the barbed wire in Wazzani and deployed in the eastern side of the river, according to NNA field reporter. ==========A.A.M

NNA - "We shall reply to Saad Hariri's utterance in kind," Hezbollah deputy of the House Nawwaf Moussawi told a group of supporters from Dhayra village in south Lebanon on Sunday. "We shall greet them all with a better salute at a time when the Lebanese realized at last the need for national unity in the face of Israel," he added. "As Lebanon is still in need of a consensual government, we urge them to join an ingathering cabinet capable of securing fair representation for all political constituencies, and that no serious hurdles obstruct the rise of such a much-desired government," Moussawi concluded. ============ G.G/ N.AF/R.Z.

NNA - Caretaker Foreign Minister, Adnan Mansour, gave a word on Saturday during a meeting of the Jerusalem Committee in Marrakech in Morocco whereby he said that Arab and international resolutions did little to hinder Israel's continuous transgressions on Quds, which entails stricter decisions that need to be respected and fully implemented by Israel. According to Mansour, Israel has been expanding its presence in Jerusalem since 1967, upping the number of Jews from zero to 180 thousand. Israel also transgressed on the sanctity of Al Aqsa Mosque and went as far as digging underneath it to compromise its foundation. "Condemnation and denouements are a thing of the past...what Quds, Al Aqsa Mosque and Palestine require of all of us...is strong will...and preventive measures that force Israel to respect international resolutions." Separately, Mansour met with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Aabass, and Moroccan Foreign Minister, Salaheddine Mezouar, =============R.Z.

NNA - MP Hani Qobeissy, member of Development and Liberation parliamentary bloc, considered that only the union of Lebanese and political agreement at the national level can protect the country. He recalled, during a ceremony in Kfar Hatta, that the only enemy of Lebanon was Israel, regretting that some parties were still trying to introduce discord in the country to dismantle its structure based on coexistence. The member then stressed the importance of returning to dialogue in order to reach an agreement so that each party could rise to its responsibility. ==============R.Z.

NNA - Head of Iran's Shura Council Ali Larijani affirmed Friday that Iran would do whatever it takes to defend Hezbollah against any attack. Fars news agency quoted Larijani as saying "Iran will certainly be supportive of Hezbollah, because it is the pride of the Islamic world that has been breaking the back of Israel." ========D.K.