A Hizbullah official in south Lebanon said the party was on full alert in case of any Israeli attack in light of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, but denied fighters were policing the border to prevent attacks on the Jewish state.

"This is a job for the (Lebanese) army and United Nations peacekeepers, not Hizbullah," the official told the Associated Press.

New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that a Lebanese bank's use of a New York account for multimillion-dollar wire transfers establishes the basis for a lawsuit in the U.S. by Israeli "victims" of Hizbullah's rocket attacks in the 2006 war.

The lawsuit was filed by American, Canadian and Israeli citizens who live in northern Israel. It claims that Lebanese Canadian Bank supported terrorism by handling international financial transactions of the Hizbullah affiliate Shahid Foundation. The lawsuit says the money was moved through an account at American Express Bank in New York.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Tuesday stressed that Lebanon's borders will not be used to send weapons to Gaza, noting that Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah only voiced “political” remarks in this regard.

“The border will not be opened and Nasrallah's remarks are political remarks. Weapons will not be sent from Lebanon to Gaza,” Miqati said in response to a question during an interview with LBCI television in Paris where he is on an official visit.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc condemned on Tuesday the Israeli assaults targeting the Palestinians in Gaza, noting that the Syrian regime's “crimes have surpassed those committed by Israel”.

"Israelis have once again demonstrated their criminal and violent nature,” said al-Mustaqbal MPs in a statement released after the bloc's weekly meeting.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday warned that “the accumulation of refugees” on Lebanon's border with Syria “poses a threat” to the country, adding that President Michel Suleiman must ask the Army Command about "its ability to defend the borders so that we come up with a vision for the defense strategy."

“I said in the past that the accumulation of refugees on the Lebanese border confirms that they are not all refugees and this poses a threat, especially if they are fighters taking part in the war in Syria,” Aoun warned after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc in Rabiyeh.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius reiterated on Tuesday that France will not interfere in Lebanon's domestic affairs, but fully supports its stability.

“France does not interfere in Lebanon's internal affairs, but we fully back stability in Lebanon,” he said after holding talks with Prime Minister Najib Miqati at the French Foreign Ministry in Quai d'Orsay in Paris.

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour traveled to Cairo on Tuesday ahead of heading to the Gaza Strip as part of an Arab ministerial delegation aimed at protesting the Israeli assault against it.

He said from the airport ahead of leaving for Egypt: “Israeli threats do not intimidate Lebanon.”

Bab al-Tabbaneh residents briefly blocked on Tuesday the international highway that links the northern city of Tripoli with Akkar for the second week in a row to protest the government's failure to compensate them for the damages caused by the recent incidents in the city.

The residents, according to the National News Agency, demand a swift solution.

President Michel Suleiman will address the Lebanese people on Wednesday on the eve of Independence Day where he will stress the necessity to spare Lebanon any regional repercussions following Monday's discovery of rockets set up to be fired against Israel, unnamed sources told An Nahar daily Tuesday.

The president is expected to reiterate the need to spare Lebanon the repercussions of the thorny Syrian crisis and Israeli aggression on Gaza, but he will renew Lebanon's solidarity with the Palestinian cause, the sources added.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed that he is ready to step down if the March 14 coalition agrees to participate in a national unity cabinet, An Nahar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

“I agree on the formation of a new government if the resignation of my cabinet is a solution to the current political crisis,” french parliamentary sources told the daily.