Israel’s mission to the United Nations has claimed that Lebanon violated Security Council Resolution 1701 around 2,374 times last year, the Jerusalem Post reported on Monday.

The mission also said in a report it issued on Sunday that there were 589 violations involving the U.N.-drawn Blue Line border between Israel and Lebanon, and 653 Hizbullah patrols along the border fence.

The agenda of the next cabinet session slated for Thursday has been distributed on Lebanon's ministers and includes 169 items for discussion, although Prime Minister Tammam Salam threatens to halt it over a delay in solutions for the garbage file, An Nahar daily reported on Monday.

Ministerial sources said that Salam has deplored the slow progress in the months long trash management file and that he is ready to “turn tables” if no progress is made before the session is held.

A Palestinian Islamist activist was injured in a shooting in the southern refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh overnight, the state-run National News Agency reported on Monday.

Mohammed Shraidi was lightly wounded in the foot and was taken to hospital when unknown assailants opened fire at him, it said.

France is insisting on reviving a $3 billion Saudi grant to the Lebanese army despite Riyadh’s decision to cut the aid, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Monday.

The Saudi government confirmed last week that it has stopped all military aid to Lebanon.

Sources close to Prime Minister Tammam Salam have denied that any party had the intention to resign from the government or suspend its participation in it.

The sources told As Safir daily published on Monday that despite the growing tension between the Mustaqbal-led March 14 alliance and the Hizbullah-dominated March 8 camp, all parties are aware that there is no alternative to the cabinet.

Speaker Nabih Berri held onto the dialogue between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal officials despite the rising tension between them as a result of a Saudi aid cut.

Berri told his visitors on Sunday that the talks have no other alternative.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil hit back Sunday at Prime Minister Tammam Salam over remarks that the minister had committed a “foreign policy mistake” through his stances at the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

“The prime minister's remarks that we committed a foreign policy mistake do not represent Lebanon or the government's policy,” said Bassil during an interview on al-Jadeed TV, when asked about Salam's remarks to Sky News television.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Sunday warned Saudi Arabia that its halt of military aid to Lebanon would only “weaken the Lebanese state” and that any “economic siege” on Lebanon would “impoverish all Lebanese.”

“The response against Lebanese institutions will weaken the institutions and the State. Suspending the military aid will weaken the State and they (Hizbullah) will benefit from this,” Jumblat cautioned during an interview with Orient News TV, which supports the Syrian opposition.

The student department of the Kataeb Party on Sunday marched from Saifi to the government's headquarters and the Council for Reconstruction and Development to condemn the authorities' failure to resolve the waste management crisis that has been running since last summer.

Carrying Lebanese and Kataeb flags, the students marched from the party's headquarters in Saifi towards central Beirut before staging a sit in outside the Grand Serail, amid strict security measures by anti-riot police.

A senior Hizbullah official warned Sunday that Saudi Arabia is “jeopardizing Lebanese stability and national unity,” noting that the rival March 14 forces are suffering the “most harm” from Riyadh's policies in Lebanon.

“The mask has fallen off the Saudi regime's real face in Lebanon, after this regime was caught red-handed inciting strife among the Lebanese,” said Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, the deputy head of Hizbullah's Executive Council.