More than 2,000 Hizbullah supporters gathered in the Bekaa Valley on Monday to bury one of their fighters who a security source said was killed in the border area with Syria.

Hussein Abdul Ghani al-Nimr, 35, "died while he was performing his jihadist duty," said a Hizbullah spokesman from the eastern city of Baalbek.

Heavy gunfire from Syria on Monday targeted the Akkar border town of al-Abboudiyeh, forcing residents to flee the area en masse.

"Two shells fired from Syria fell on al-Abboudiyeh and Hakr Janin while other towns are being targeted by heavy gunfire," Radio Voice of Lebanon (93.3) reported.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Monday said its radars did not detect the crossing of any surveillance drones from Lebanon into the Israeli airspace, amid Israeli suspicions that a drone shot down by Israeli warplanes on Saturday over the Negev area could have been sent by Hizbullah.

In an interview with Radio Voice of Lebanon (93.3), UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti said the U.N. peacekeeping force did not witness any event of a drone flying from Lebanon into the Israeli airspace.

Hizbullah on Monday denied involvement in the 2005 assassination of prominent journalist and MP Gebran Tueni, chairman of the board of directors of An Nahar newspaper, after Al-Arabiya television broadcast Saturday a report claiming that Damascus and Hizbullah's intelligence department were behind the operation.

“Al-Arabiya's document on Hizbullah is fake and not everything published is a real document and you can tell that from the content,” Hizbullah's State Minister for Administrative Development Mohammed Fneish told reporters as he entered a cabinet session at the Grand Serail.

Progressive Socialist Party Leader MP Walid Jumblat said on Monday that refraining from slashing the salaries of MPs, ministers and officials will only lead to deepening the rift between the citizen and society.

In his weekly editorial in al-Anbaa newspaper, Jumblat called for reconsidering the financial disbursement of Lebanese officials “at the expense of citizens and the public treasury”.

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly noted on Monday that Lebanon is honoring its humanitarian obligations towards the Syrian refugees in the country, which is “winning great credit thereby.”

He stressed again the need for all concerned to commit to keeping the Syrian crisis away from Lebanon “and to give absolute priority to keeping Lebanon safe.”

A number of Nepalese members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon were wounded on Monday when their vehicle overturned in southern Lebanon, reported the National News Agency.

It said that six members of the Nepalese unit were wounded when their pick up truck overturned while they were conducting a routine mission.

The controversial issue of appointments is expected to be settled shortly as disputes over the matter have been resolved before President Michel Suleiman's visit to Latin America last week, An Nahar newspaper reported on Monday.

According to the daily, Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Miqati agreed on the names of the three candidates to be appointed as the head of the Higher Judicial Council, the General Prosecutor and the head of the Judicial Inspection Board.

The security agencies, AMAL movement, and Hizbullah agreed on a scenario to help implement a security plan that will kick off this week in the Bekaa region, al-Akhbar daily reported on Monday.

The plan to control the spread of outlaws, thieves, carjacking and kidnapping fanning out in the eastern region aims to gain the people's support in a bid to assist the Lebanese army's mission and make it a success, the daily added.

Lebanon is expected to witness this week massive demonstrations as the Lebanese University contract professors will kick off a three-day strike on Monday, while the Syndicate Coordination Committee is set to hold a protest on Wednesday, local newspapers reported.

LU contract teachers' three-day strike is set to protest the cabinet's failure to approve a draft law to make them full-time teachers.