Hizbullah condemned on Friday the assault against a number of residents from the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood in the northern city of Tripoli, saying that criminal gangs bent on creating sectarian strife were behind the attack.

It said in a statement: “The criminal gangs, which are being offered political cover by the March 14 camp, are continuing on driving their knife into Tripoli's bleeding wound.”

The Gulf Cooperation Council on Thursday approved what it described as “the necessary measures against Hizbullah's interests” in the Gulf countries, after endorsing recommendations during a meeting in Riyadh in September.

“The interior ministers of the Council's member states have approved the results of the extraordinary meetings held by the ministries' undersecretaries regarding the necessary measures that should be taken against the interests of Hizbullah and its members and associates in the GCC countries,” Council chief Abdul Latif al-Zayani said following a meeting in Bahrain.

Hizbullah members and army troops on Thursday erected checkpoints in the Bekaa region of Hermel after reports said several booby-trapped cars had entered the area.

“Hizbullah has deployed in Hermel after reports about the presence of explosive-rigged cars in the region and security forces have headed to the area to assess the situation,” MTV reported.

The southern town of Rishknaniyeh in the Tyre district on Thursday held a funeral for a slain Hizbullah military commander nicknamed “Sayyed Nasrallah” in reference to the group's secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

“Wissam Sharafeddine, the most prominent Hizbullah field commander in Damascus' countryside, has been killed,” Future TV reported.

Hizbullah is operating a fleet of 200 unmanned aerial vehicles on the border with Syria, American online newspaper World Tribune reported.

“Sources in the country said Hizbullah was operating UAVs throughout Lebanon,” the online news portal added

Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah criticized on Tuesday the politicization of the incident at Universite Saint Joseph at the Huvelin neighborhood in Beirut on Monday.

He said during a press conference: “Those who have been defeated on the political scene are taking out their frustrations and creating incitement through the USJ incident.”

Hizbullah MP Nawwaf al-Moussawi stated on Friday that the resistance has never asked for national consensus since its establishment, noting also that there would have not been Independence Day if it weren't for the party's sacrifices.

"If it weren't for the resistance, no one would have thought about celebrating Independence Day and if it weren't for the resistance, the land would have been still under occupation and most of the people in prisons,” al-Moussawi said in a speech he gave at a funeral in Deir Amass town.

The Head of Hizbullah's Juristic Committee condemned on Friday the explosions that targeted the Iranian embassy in the Beirut neighborhood of Bir Hassan, lamenting the weakness of the state amid “the increased security threats to the country.”

"We urge our people to become the guardians of their security and of their country in cooperation with security forces, amid the security threats and the violent Israeli and Takfiri bombings,” Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek said during his Friday sermon at the shrine for Sayyeda Khawla in the Bekaa city of Baalbek.

A Hizbullah official stated on Thursday that if it weren't for the party's interference in the Syrian war, the Damascus regime would have “certainly collapsed.”

"(Syrian President Bashar) Assad' regime would have collapsed in two hours if Hizbullah forces had not intervened in the fighting,” a party official told UK's The Times magazine.

A meeting between Change and Reform and al-Mustaqbal blocs' lawmakers on Thursday did not result in an accord between both parties, although it was an opportunity to “share ideas and reach common grounds,” the MPs said after the talks.

“Both parties were honest and we shared some ideas,” al-Mustaqbal MP Atef Majdalani told reporters after the meeting.