President Michel Aoun has reassured that Syria's raging war will not affect Lebanon, noting that there will be no “winners or losers in the upcoming elections.”

“We have managed to create a situation in which losses and victories in Syria do not have an effect and Lebanon would maintain a state of stability and prosperity without getting entangled in conflicts,” Aoun said in an interview with Egypt's ON Live TV.

A Lebanese judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed against a Saudi minister, saying it would harm the country's “higher national interest.”

“Beirut First Examining Magistrate Ghassan Oueidat has issued a ruling in which he decided not to proceed with the lawsuit filed by liberated captive Nabih Hussein Awada via his lawyer Hassan Bazzi against Saudi State Minister for Gulf Affairs Thamer al-Sabhan,” the National News Agency said.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri emphasized after a summit at Baabda Palace with President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri that Lebanon will always have “unified stances to confront Israel's violations,” the National News Agency reported on Monday.

“Our stances will always be united to confront Israel's violations against Lebanon,” assured Hariri.

After the downing of an Israeli warplane by Syrian forces over the weekend, Speaker Nabih Berri said the incident “will create new rules of engagement” as he ruled out an escalation in the region, assuring that Lebanon's oil excavation rights are safeguarded, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

“What happened is larger than a battle and a little less than a war. It will create new balances and rules of engagement in the region. This event is the first of its kind in tens of years. However, no escalation is expected. Things will end there, they will not develop into a comprehensive war,” the daily quoted Berri as telling his visitors.

A major international donor conference aimed at boosting support for Lebanon's army and security forces has been scheduled on March 15.

A Lebanese man on Sunday crossed the border fence into Israel from the Fatima Gate area in south Lebanon, the Lebanese National News Agency said.

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett has warned that "any future battle with Lebanon will witness the launch of a large number of rockets at northern and central Israel."

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Saturday urged for “precaution in Lebanon” following early morning Israeli aggression against Syria and the earlier Israeli threats against Lebanon.

“It seems that there are major disturbances lurking in the region's horizons...It will not be useful to think of separating tracks since the Israelis have already linked them.”

Lebanon's Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Saturday condemning the Israeli raids against Syria and affirmed Damascus' “legitimate right to defend itself against any Israeli attack,” the National News Agency reported.

The statement said “Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil has given instructions to the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York to lodge a complaint with the Security Council against Israel warning against the use of Lebanese airspace to launch attacks against Syria.”

Cautious calm prevailed Saturday morning in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh following a night of heavy armed clashes that left one man dead and several others injured, the National News Agency reported.