Three rockets fired from the Syrian side of the border landed near al-Qaa region on Tuesday, reported the National News Agency.

It said that the rockets landed on hills near the northern Bekaa town of al-Qaa.

The case of the mastermind in the kidnapping of the seven Estonian cyclists have been referred to the Military Tribunal, reported the National News Agency Tuesday.

It said that State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr referred the case of Hussein al-Hujairi to the permanent military court.

Independent March 14 lawmakers renewed on Tuesday their rejection of the Orthodox Gathering parliamentary electoral draft law, saying that it “represents a threat to Lebanon and all of its sects.”

MP Butros Harb said after a meeting for the MPs: “Speaker Nabih Berri should have placed more than one electoral law on parliament's agenda on Wednesday.”

The Progressive Socialist Party said Tuesday that Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel proposed to it several electoral draft-laws based on the winner-takes-all system in an attempt to resolve the dispute on the Orthodox Gathering plan.

“Charbel has several electoral ideas that are based on the winner-takes-all system,” MP Akram Shehayyeb told reporters after meeting with the caretaker minister along with several other officials from MP Walid Jumblat's PSP.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Tuesday rejected a one-party rule in Lebanon and hinted that there should be an all-embracing government that does not give veto power to any party.

“Not a single party can rule alone even if it was the majority,” Miqati said during a ceremony held at the Grand Serail.

Hizbullah fighters have been advancing swiftly into southern Syria and have reached the flashpoint southern town of Daraa near the border with Jordan, media reports said on Tuesday.

A source close to Hizbullah told the Kuwaiti al-Qabas newspaper that Hizbullah fighters played a significant role in helping the regime troops to take full power of the strategic town of Kherbet Ghazleh near the highway linking the capital Damascus with Jordan.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed on Tuesday that he belongs to the centrists bloc more than President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat.

“If centrism applies to anyone then it's me... Ever since I presumed the tasks of the speaker, I tried to communicate with all parties and I have always sought to mend ties to achieve consensus,” Berri said in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

The fate of a parliamentary session scheduled to be held on Wednesday to discuss a new electoral draft-law is unclear over the lack of final stances on the participation of two blocs from the March 14 alliance.

The Phalange and the Lebanese Forces are emerging the major players in guaranteeing a needed quorum of 65 MPs for the session.

The ties between Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and Hizbullah has deteriorated over the controversial dispute over the formation of the cabinet, media reports said on Tuesday.

Sources close to Jumblat told al-Liwaa newspaper that consultations are ongoing to reach common ground over the distribution of portfolios and to grant the March 8 alliance further guarantees over the matter.

A Palestinian man who lived in Canada for the past 26 years has been deported to Lebanon over a 1968 attack on an Israeli airliner, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced Monday.

Issa Mohammed immigrated to Canada using a false alias in 1987, after being convicted by a Greek court of storming a civilian airliner and killing a passenger and later being released from jail in a hostage exchange.