...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
-Amal protesters in the Tayyouneh-Ain al-Remmaneh area from a close distance during Thursday’s deadly incidents.
In an official statement issued overnight, the army acknowledged that the footage shows "a soldier opening fire at protesters during the confrontations that erupted two days ago in the Tayyouneh area," noting that he is being "interrogated under the supervision of the competent judicial authorities."
Al-Jadeed TV meanwhile quoted "sources close to the Lebanese Army" as saying that "the army started responding to gunfire after three people were killed by gunfire in the armed clash."
"This is what appeared in the circulated videos that show an army soldier opening fire," the sources added.
Al-Rahi Rejects Violence between 'Brothers', 'Fabrication of Files, Scapegoating'
[An Nahar] Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday expressed sorrow over Thursday’s deadly incidents in the Tayyouneh-Ain al-Remmaneh area, expressing "warm condolences to the families of the victims" and wishing recovery for the maimed."At the same time we strongly condemn these incidents and the armed appearances that were used between brothers in the same country," al-Rahi added, in his Sunday Mass sermon.
"The democratic system provides us with peaceful means of expression, in acceptance or rejection, support or opposition, and therefore no party is allowed to resort to intimidation, violence and the setting up of partisan or clan checkpoints on public roads to obtain what they want by force," the patriarch said.
He warned that "harming national peace and good and brotherly neighborliness is rejected wherever it may come from."
"We reject to return to arbitrary accusations, sectarian polarization and seditious media. We reject to return to readily available slogans and isolation attempts... We reject to return to the fabrication of files against this or that group or to the selection of certain people as scapegoats," al-Rahi added.
Raad Says 'LF Treachery' Will Have a Price, Asks State to Investigate
[An Nahar] Head of the Loyalty to Resistance® bloc MP Mohammed Raad warned Sunday that there will be a price for "the Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
’ treachery that committed a massacre on Thursday," referring to the deadly Tayyouneh festivities."We will not rush to a civil war and we will not threaten civil peace, but we also will not accept that this blood go in vain," Raad said.
"The state must investigate and reach the culprits to hold them accountable, seeing as this is its job," the Hizbullah politician added, noting that Hizbullah will wait to see what the state will do but "will not forget the blood of the innocents from our people."
"Their entire history is full of massacres and attacks on civil peace," Raad went on to say, referring to the LF.
Apparently lashing out at LF leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005..., the MP accused him of "planting snipers on rooftops to tell his handlers that he is the horse that they can bet on to ruin civil peace and the country."
He warned: "Our problem with the group of snipers will have a separate price, seeing as the blood of our people is not ink. The blood of our people remains blood and we know its value, seeing as had it not been for it, no Lebanese would have possessed dignity and the Israeli’s boot would have been ruling this country."
Turning to the port blast investigation, Raad asked: "What are you afraid of?"
"Those who want the truth must unveil it without cheating, falsification and lying to people and without turning the probe into something that can be exploited to incite people against each other. This is all what we are asking for regarding this matter and we will follow it up," he added.
Five Hizbullah and Amal Movement members and two non-combatants were killed and dozens of people were maimed in Thursday’s fierce festivities in the Tayyouneh area.
Hizbullah and Amal have accused the LF of deploying snipers on rooftops and opening fire on peaceful protesters. The Lebanese Forces has meanwhile denied using snipers while noting that it was Ain al-Remmaneh’s residents who "defended themselves" in the face of an "invasion" by the supporters of the two groups.
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