Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday launched one of his fiercest verbal attacks to date against Saudi Arabia over its execution of top Shiite dissident Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, as he warned against turning the issue into a Sunni-Shiite conflict.

“The land of the two holy mosques and the Prophet and his family has been wrongfully called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech commemorating both al-Nimr and late Hizbullah official Sheikh Mohammed Khatoun.

New landslides hit the outskirts of the town of Kfarnabrakh in the Chouf region and some residents were compelled to evacuate their homes, the state-run National News Agency said on Sunday.

A snowstorm accompanied by heavy rainfall hit the area leading to the collapse of major pathway that lies beneath the houses. The landslide blocked the Kfarnabrakh, Wadi al-Sitt and al-Fowara roads with soil and rocks, NNA added.

The March 14 General Secretariat reiterated the keenness to preserve Lebanon's stability and the necessity not to turn the nation to an arena to settle accounts of major events taking place around us in the region.

“Out of our keenness to preserve stability we stress the need not to turn Lebanon to a weak spot and a place to settle accounts of serious events,” the Secretariat said in a statement issued on Sunday.

Marada chief MP Suleiman Franjieh seems to be preparing for his withdrawal from the March 8 camp but without giving up on the relations with the alliance, the Kuwaiti al-Anba daily reported on Sunday.

“Marada chief Franjieh is preparing the step of withdrawal from the March 8 as a confirmation of his political independence from any internal alignments but without giving up on the relations with the said alliance and its political visions,” reported the daily.

The Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch thwarted a kidnapping attempt in return for ransom and were able to arrest the assailants in the northern border region of Wadi Khaled, the state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.

"The ISF Intelligence Branch foiled the attempt to kidnap Syrian national M.Y. In return for ransom after luring him into Lebanon," the ISF said via its Twitter account.

The Saudi Arabian Embassy in Lebanon has taken precautionary security measures following the execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr and the torching of the Saudi Embassy late on Saturday in Tehran, the Kuwaiti daily al-Jarida said on Sunday.

The embassy's staff were notified of the necessity to stay inside the embassy to avoid any reprisals they may be exposed to by supporters of Iran in Lebanon, it added.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi called on Iranian Ambassador Mohammed Fathali to urge members of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc to “head to the parliament for the election of a president,” al-Mustaqbal Movement reported on Sunday.

“The Patriarch has reiterated to the Iranian ambassador the necessity that the state institutions mainly the parliament restore their role,” Spokesperson of the Maronite Patriarchate Walid Ghayyad quoted al-Rahi following a meeting with Fathali at Bkirki.

Hizbullah condemned on Saturday Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, holding the United States responsible for the development.

It said in a statement: “We hold the U.S. and its allies, who are presenting direct protection to the Saudi regime, responsible for covering up the kingdom's crimes against it people and those of the region.”

State security forces discovered a bag containing a belt of hand grenades in the northern city of Tripoli, reported the National News Agency on Saturday.

It said that a state security patrol made the discovery over the holiday period, not specifying if it was on Saturday or an earlier date.

Security measures have been tightened at various Palestinian refugee camps, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Saturday.

Palestinian factions took a series of steps and procedures at the camps in order to prevent any internal violations, especially in the southern camp of Ain el-Hilweh.