Two people have been injured in a shooting in the Tayyouneh area in Beirut on Thursday, reported the National News Agency.

It said that Dalal and Ahmed al-Hallaq were shot in the foot when a member of the Zoaiter family opened fire at a car dealership in Tayyouneh at around 1:30 pm.

The former chief of the General Security Department, Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed, described on Thursday Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat as a “sectarian dictator” who would have let the Lebanese suffer under his rule if he had controlled the country.

Jumblat “is a small sectarian dictator in Lebanon” who has terrorized his Druze and non-Druze foes, has been involved in corruption and has ordered massacres and assassinations, Sayyed said in a statement.

Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel rejected on Thursday that the Christians in the East would be the victims of the revolutions taking place in the Arab world.

He said during a press a conference: “It is time that we protect the Christians through the establishment of a new bill that protects their existence in order that they no longer remain victims.”

Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi stressed that the U.S. “fabrications” against Iran reveal that Washington “failed” in all the other matters during this critical stage.

Roknabadi handed Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour a letter on Thursday concerning the U.S. accusations of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington Adel al-Joubeir.

The United Nations is considering moving the offices of its headquarters in Beirut to the Coral Beach Hotel as it has previously done in 2007, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.

“The offices will be relocated in a timeframe no longer than two weeks,” the daily said.

The March 14 forces are coordinating their stances ahead of a possible announcement by Premier Najib Miqati that his government would refuse to fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, opposition leadership sources said.

The sources told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that former Premier Saad Hariri, who is currently aboard, is holding large-scale consultations in case Miqati announces that his negotiations with the March 8 forces on the STL funding have reached a dead-end.

The Economic Committees are scheduled to hold a press conference on Thursday to reject the government’s wage boost and call for dialogue despite an announcement by Youth and Sports Minister Faisal Karami that the cabinet would stick to its salary package.

Premier Najib Miqati said during a cabinet session held at the Grand Serail on Wednesday that the government needed more time to consider the labor unions’ demands.

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has reportedly told several party officials that the discovery of spies within the Shiite group’s ranks hasn’t harmed the resistance.

Al-Akhbar daily on Thursday quoted Nasrallah as saying that despite the spying, “no major harm” was done to Hizbullah because of the top secrecy in its operations.

Head of Tripoli's supreme military council Abdelhakim Belhaj stressed that “reliable information” indicates that missing Imam Moussa al-Sadr is buried in a “farm” south of the Libyan capital.

“We previously received information that Imam al-Sadr was moved to Sabha and then buried in al-Qalaa neighborhood,” Belhaj told BBC Arabic.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has said that Hizbullah’s arms have become the backbone of political differences in Lebanon that would have negative consequences on all the Lebanese.

In his 14th report on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1559, Ban said the weapons were creating an atmosphere of intimidation and were a direct challenge to the safety of civilians and a monopoly on the right of the government to use force.