The European Union is exerting efforts to label Hizbullah a terrorist organization and implement sanctions against it, political and intelligence sources have said.

The sources told the Kuwaiti daily al-Seyassah published on Tuesday that the EU would implement the sanctions not just on Hizbullah but on all those who support it and back it if the party was officially labeled a terrorist group.

French President Francois Hollande is expected to visit Beirut on April 16 in a "show of support" for Lebanon amid difficult conditions in the Middle East, a French source said on Tuesday.

The source told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that Hollande’s trip to Lebanon would be part of a tour to the region that will also take him to Egypt and Jordan.

After two Lebanese figures announced their nominations for the key post of head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Lebanese political scene appears to be divided about the two candidates.

Tensions were high on Monday at the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon after an Islamist militant shot dead a member of the secular Fatah Movement and unknown gunmen retaliated by killing the man's brother, state-run National News Agency reported.

“Omar al-Natour, a member of Bilal Badr's group, opened fire at Fatah Movement member Abed Qiblawi, killing him on the spot at the intersection of al-Fawqani street's vegetable market,” NNA said.

Kataeb Party chief MP Sami Gemayel has warned that Hizbullah would choose the country's president “every six years” if the Lebanese accept the “approach” that the Iran-backed party and its allies are currently adopting in the presidential race.

“According to Hizbullah and March 8's dictatorial approach, we either accept (Free Patriotic Movement founder MP) Michel Aoun as their only candidate or else there won't be a president. If the Lebanese accept this approach today, they must know that Hizbullah would then name the new president every six years,” Gemayel cautioned in an interview with the Saudi al-Jazirah newspaper.

A Lebanese al-Nusra Front member was found dead in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal on Monday amid fierce clashes between the Qaida-linked group and jihadists from the Islamic State organization, the National News Agency reported.

Lebanese national Majed Mohammed Abdulmajid al-Hujeiri, aka Abou al-Barae, was killed in battles between al-Nusra and the IS, NNA said.

Kuwait is to deport 60 Lebanese for alleged links to Hizbullah in the latest Gulf Arab move against the Shiite group, a newspaper reported on Monday.

Those to be deported all had permanent residency which has been revoked, al-Qabas daily said.

Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas stressed on Monday that Prime Minister Tammam Salam has refused to discuss the issue of naturalizing refugees with the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during his visit to Lebanon.

“Salam deliberately took a preemptive step on the possibility to put the subject down for discussion by emphasizing Lebanon’s rejection for the principle of naturalization,” stated Derbas to the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat daily.

U.S. National Security Agency chief Michael Rogers has made a secret visit to Israel for cooperation against possible attacks by Hizbullah and its main backer Iran, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

A senior official told the newspaper that one of the subjects that Rogers discussed with Israeli officials was cooperation in the field of cyber defense, particularly in the face of attacks from Iran and Hizbullah.

Speaker Nabih Berri had voiced concerns to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Lebanese officials may no longer be able to reach an “internal solution” to the deadlock over the presidential elections, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Monday.

He encouraged Ban to seek dialogue between Saudi Arabia and Iran, “because an agreement between them may raise hope that an agreement may be reached over a president for Lebanon.”