Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb said that a meeting will take place on Wednesday with representatives from the companies tasked to export Lebanon's trash in order to finalize the last touches and pinpoint remarks made by several ministers, As Safir daily reported.

“Several ministers made some remarks about the contract that was signed with the British and Dutch companies. A meeting with the companies' representatives will take place today despite the holiday on the occasion of Prophet Mohammed's birthday in order to pinpoint the remarks,” he told the daily.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam reiterated on Tuesday the efforts to support moderation and to confront the acts of terrorism that are “harming the image of the Islam.”

“We will continue to support moderation and confront terrorism that is tarnishing the image of Islam,” said Salam marking the Prophet's Birthday and after meeting Grand Mufti Abdul Latif Daryan at Dar al-Fatwa.

Thousands of people gathered Monday in the southern Beirut suburb of Ghobeiri for the funeral of high-profile Hizbullah militant Samir al-Quntar, who the group says was killed by an Israeli airstrike near the Syrian capital.

Hizbullah said Quntar, who spent 30 years in an Israeli prison after a deadly operation in northern Israel, was killed Saturday along with eight others in the airstrike on a residential building in Jaramana, close to Damascus.

A cabinet session is scheduled to convene on Monday to tackle the thorny trash management file and the possibility of its exportation, amid reports predicting its failure due to the secrecy engulfing the details of the plan and the cost entailed.

Exporting the trash is the sole item on the cabinet's agenda that will be held at the Grand Serail. Prime Minister Tammam Salam had stressed to his visitors on Sunday that no other items are listed on the agenda in order to avoid political controversies that could hamper the implementation of the plan, al-Mustaqbal daily reported.

At least three rockets were fired Sunday from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, drawing retaliatory fire, several hours after Hizbullah accused Israel of assassinating its top militant Samir al-Quntar in a Syria air raid.

Two Katyusha-type rockets were fired from south Lebanon into Israel on Sunday, a Lebanese security source told AFP, and in Israel the army said rockets had hit the north.

Several of Hizbullah's allies in the region condemned Sunday the assassination of the group's top militant Samir al-Quntar in a raid in Syria.

Syrian Prime Minister Wael Halaqi condemned the attack, saying targeting Quntar was equivalent to "targeting the axis of resistance," referring to Syria and its allies.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat denounced on Sunday the assassination of Hizbullah figure Samir al-Quntar, describing the slain as “a symbol of struggle and steadfastness.”

“Apart from our political differences with regard to the Syrian crisis, we denounce targeting Samir al-Quntar with an Israeli air raid in Jermana that led to his death. He will continue to be a symbol of struggle and steadfastness”, said Jumblat in a statement.

Supporters of ex-MP Hassan Yaacooub, who is detained in the kidnapping case of Hannibal Gadhafi, blocked the Tamnine-Riyaq road in Baalbek protest to his ongoing detention, the state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.

Later during the day, the protesters blocked the Riyaq-Baablek and the Baalbek-Hermel highways with burning tires, expressing major dismay, it added.

The settlement that could bring Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh to the top state post, will not be addressed during the dialogue session set for the beginning of the week, An Nahar daily reported on Sunday.

Speaker Nabih Berri is committed to limit the discussions to the items listed on the agenda, sources close to Ain el-Tineh told the daily.

Hizbullah figure Samir al-Quntar was killed in an Israeli air raid near the Syrian capital, media reports said on Sunday.

Israeli warplanes targeted a building where Quntar and a number of his companions were residing in Hay al-Homsi in Jarmana southeast of Damascus, killing an unidentified number, media reports said.