An unarmed drone shot down by Israel on Saturday after it entered the country's airspace from the Mediterranean Sea could have been sent by Hizbullah, an Israeli official has suggested.

The Israeli army dispelled the notion that the drone might have been launched from the Gaza Strip, and was looking into the possibility that Hizbullah may have dispatched it, a military official told Israeli public radio.

President Michel Suleiman has stressed that Lebanon will not be a “mailbox” anymore or “a place to protect any regime or state.”

“Lebanon paid dearly for its freedom and democracy and from now on it will not allow anyone to turn it into a launchpad for sending messages to anyone or into a place to protect any regime or state other than Lebanon's,” Suleiman reassured during a meeting with the Lebanese community in Uruguay.

Hizbullah has made overtures towards Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat in a bid to convince him of an electoral law based on proportional representation and a new, appealing distribution of electorates, but the Druze leader held on to his rejection of an electoral law based on proportional representation, which he believes is aimed at eliminating a major political camp, a National Struggle Front source said.

The PSP “was a pioneer in advocating proportional representation as a step towards reform, but it does not believe that raising it at the moment is aimed at improving the Lebanese electoral system, but rather at eliminating a rival Lebanese camp that has its weight in the Lebanese equation, in a manner that would increase threats to stability and national unity in the country,” the source quoted Jumblat as saying, in remarks published Sunday by the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.

The military judiciary sentenced on Saturday two Syrians to life in prison with hard labor after being allegedly convicted of spying for their country, media reports said.

According to MTV, Moufid George Bou Hassoun and Ahmed Mohammed al-Elkeh were sentenced separately in absentia with their civil rights being stripped.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati criticized on Saturday the Syndicate Coordination Committee's decision to hold a strike on Wednesday over their opposition to the government's new wage scale proposal.

He said: “The strike will not achieve anything.”

Military Tribunal Judge Saqr Saqr referred to Military Examining Magistrate Riyad Abu Ghida on Saturday the file on the telephone call that allegedly took place between former Minister Michel Samaha and Syrian President Bashar Assad's media adviser Buthaina Shaaban, reported the National News Agency on Saturday.

The telephone call took place shortly before Samaha transported explosives from Syria to Lebanon.

Cabinet is scheduled to convene on Monday and Wednesday in order to address a number of draft laws, but not the contentious appointments file, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

Monday's session, headed by Prime Minister Najib Miqati and held at the Grand Serail, will study efforts to activate administrative work.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stated that political difference should never escalate into armed clashes, regardless of how great the dispute, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Saturday.

He said before his visitors while reminiscing about the “futile” Lebanese civil war: “At the time, no human would ever have imagined that the Islamic resistance would turn its arms towards the internal scene.”

Security forces thwarted on Saturday a riot in Jeb Jennine prison.

LBCI television reported that a number of prisoners rioted demanding improved conditions and easing overcrowding.

President Michel Suleiman stated that it is time that the Lebanese people enjoy “the least amount of calm and stability” given the turbulent regional situation, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

He told the daily: “My call to resume the national dialogue is aimed at achieving sovereignty, stability, and security.”