Hizbullah organized a funeral procession on Thursday for three of its fighters who were killed Wednesday in a blast that hit an ammunition depot in the Bekaa town of Nabi Sheet.

Hizbullah leaders and officials took part in the procession, state-run National News Agency reported.

An Israeli court on Thursday charged an Arab Israeli with gathering information for Hizbullah, including details of security arrangements for President Shimon Peres, the Shin Bet security agency said.

In a statement, Israel's domestic security service said Milad Mohammed Khatib, from the Arab village of Majdal Krum in northern Israel, was charged with "espionage, contact with an enemy agent, aiding the enemy in time of war and conspiracy to aid the enemy."

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly expressed on Thursday her country's “grave concern” over Syria continued shelling of and incursions into Lebanon’s border region, said the U.S. Embassy in a statement.

She stressed to Prime Minister Najib Miqati “the United States’ expectation that the Syrian regime respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Lebanon.”

Military Tribunal Judge Imad al-Zein issued on Thursday the death penalty against Hani al-Shanti and Azzam al-Hussein over the Caracas shooting that occurred in May.

The two culprits were charged with attempted murder, carrying out terrorist acts, violently responding to security forces and the possession of illegal weapons.

The joint parliamentary committees postponed on Thursday the formation of a subcommittee to study a suitable electoral system and size of districts over sharp differences on who to appoint to the body.

Al-Jadeed reported that Change and Reform bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan and Phalange MP Sami Gemayel rejected the formation of the subcommittee.

A U.S. judge formally ordered Hizbullah, Iran, al-Qaida and several other defendants Wednesday to pay $6 billion compensation to the victims of September 11, 2001, in a largely symbolic ruling.

Although Iran denies any connection to 9/11, it was included in the list of alleged culprits by the U.S. District Court in New York, along with Hizbullah, Afghanistan's Taliban guerrillas and al-Qaida, which took credit for the massive terror attack.

The Internal Security Forces announced on Thursday that it had confiscated a number of weapons and ammunition in the Koura region.

It said in a statement that its Intelligence Bureau had raided a plot of land in Btaaboura in al-Koura after obtaining information that arms were being stashed there.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel criticized on Thursday the adoption of the French model to decided whether or not the security agencies would be allowed to obtain the telecom data as the security situation in Lebanon is different.

“We can't dispense the telecom data in the meantime... The security agencies should be able to obtain it without violating the privacy of citizens,” Charbel said in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati did not hold talks in New York with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem, reported al-Joumhouria on Thursday.

Al-Liwaa newspaper had reported on Wednesday that the two officials had met during their visit to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

The Nabi Sheet explosion in a Hizbullah arms depot on Wednesday demonstrated the danger the party's weapons pose to Lebanon, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Thursday.

March 14 sources noted to the newspaper that the Hizbullah sought to demonstrate the power of the blast through the damage it caused, which is an indication that the explosion was deliberate.