Head of Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad stressed Monday that the country's next president must “embrace the resistance and must be aware of its role and importance.”

“Our people and their representatives (in parliament) have the right to choose the president who can preserve the resistance's achievements, the unity of the Lebanese, national sovereignty and independence,” Raad said during a memorial service in the southern town of Deir al-Zahrani.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq said that a plan will kick off on Tuesday to evacuate people who are injured from the remote border village of al-Tufail and to send humanitarian aid to the residents.

“Gunmen will not be allowed to enter Lebanon... We will only open a safe passage for the residents of the town,” Mashnouq said in a press conference held on Monday at his office at the interior ministry.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stated that vacuum in the presidency is possible “should the other camp choose to obstruct the democratic process,” reported al-Jazeera television.

He said in an interview that will be aired on Monday night: “I do not fear security chaos should vacuum arise.”

The body of an Electricite du Liban contract worker was found after being missing for around ten days, the state-run National News Agency reported on Monday.

According to NNA, the body of Ali Ibrahim was found on Sunday overnight laying in an electrical room in a building in the Hay el-Sellom neighborhood of Beirut's southern suburbs.

The presidential elections in Lebanon could be postponed to September pending a number of regional and international developments, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Monday.

Concerned sources told the daily that Lebanon has to overcome three obstacles in order to be able to hold the polls.

Tension surged in the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon on Monday after unknown assailants shot dead the bodyguard of Jund al-Sham official Oussama al-Shahabi.

Gunmen deployed heavily in al-Sefsaf neighborhood after Ali Khalil, who is also the nephew of al-Shahabi, succumbed to his wounds.

One by one, the old traditional houses of Beirut are vanishing as luxury towers sprout up on every corner, altering the city's skyline almost beyond recognition amid an ongoing construction frenzy seemingly immune to tensions from the civil war raging next door.

Lebanon's enchanting Ottoman and colonial French-style buildings once represented Beirut's rich history, withstanding years of civil war and invasions only to be demolished in peace time by wealthy Gulf Arab investors.

Bloodied and traumatized, Batoul, a mother of three, was admitted into an intensive care unit Sunday after her husband beat her up and left her along with her child on the side of a road in the northern city of Tripoli.

The woman, whose head was bleeding, stayed for several hours in the street after she was assaulted, according to MTV.

A man was shot and wounded Sunday after crossing an army checkpoint in the Bekaa border town of Arsal and opening fire at troops.

“Driving a pickup carrying foreign license plates, Kamal Ezzeddine crossed a Lebanese Army checkpoint in the Arsal region and opened fire at its members, who responded in kind,” the army said in a communique.

The dead body of a young woman was found Sunday in the Keserwan area of Okaibe, a day after she went missing from the nearby town of Ajaltoun.

“The corpse of young woman Stephanie Jack al-Zoghbi, 21, was discovered in the Okaibe area after she died in mysterious circumstances,” state-run National News Agency reported.