The army command denied on Tuesday that Military chief General Jean Qahwaji made a statement to the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat concerning the Israeli strike that killed a prominent Hizbullah fighter with five other members in Syria's Golan Heights.

“The army command completely denies that Qahwaji made any remarks to the newspaper or any other media outlet concerning the strike,” it said in statement.

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to give a speech on Sunday following the death of six party members in an Israeli strike in Syria as the movement investigated whether the attack was a result of a major security breach.

As Safir daily said Tuesday that Nasrallah had been scheduled to address his supporters on the seventh assassination anniversary of military commander Imad Mughniyeh on February 16.

Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Tuesday offenders in the Bekaa valley that they will eventually have no choice but to hand themselves over to security forces, flee the country or face death ahead of the implementation of a security plan in the area.

The speaker stressed that the implementation of the security plan this time will not be like its predecessors, stressing that the security forces will remain deployed in the area until all violators are apprehended.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed on Tuesday that Lebanon cannot endure any “adventure,” pointing out that the Israeli airstrike that killed a prominent Hizbullah fighter with five other members occurred in Syria's Golan Heights and not on Lebanese territories.

“We are only concerned with the occupied land on Kfarshouba Hills and the Shebaa Farms and have nothing to do with what happens in Syria,” Jumblat said in comments published in al-Mustaqbal newspaper.

The sound of an explosion that echoed across the southern city of Sidon and caused panic on Monday evening turned out to be the result of a hand grenade.

"A hand grenade was hurled near the British Cemetery in Haret Saida," state-run National News Agency reported, referring to a mainly Shiite neighborhood of Sidon.

The Army carried out raids Monday in the Baalbek district and engaged in a clash with a gang while trying to arrest its members, which left one soldier wounded.

The state-owned National News Agency reported that “the army raided a gang consisted of four fugitives who were hiding at a house for the al-Aouta family in one of northern Baalbek's neighborhoods.”

The Kataeb Party on Monday called for abiding by Lebanon's official “self-dissociation” policy towards regional conflicts, following an unprecedented Israeli raid in Syria that killed six Hizbullah fighters, as it urged the Lebanese parties to preserve the relations with Arab countries.

"The Israeli raid that targeted Hizbullah's post in Syria's Quneitra and killed Lebanese fighters requires our concern over its repercussions on Lebanon,” said Kataeb's political bureau in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.

A man was injured after coming under gunfire from the Syrian side of the border in the northern district of Akkar, the state-run National News Agency reported on Monday.

NNA said Khaled Fadel al-Salem was wounded in his right leg after coming under fire in the neighborhood of Bani Sakhr in the Wadi Khaled border area.

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour declared on Monday that the health situation at Rafik Hariri International Airport has not improved since food safety inspectors raided the facility in December.

He said during a press conference: “Unfortunately, the situation at the airport is still tragic.”

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said on Monday that he "vigorously condemns" the Israeli strike that killed six Hizbullah fighters in Syria.

Zarif said Sunday's strike was no surprise, describing it as "state terrorism" by Israel.