2 Men Assaulted in Jabal Mohsen, Grenade Hurled near al-Zahriyeh Church
Two men were attacked on Tuesday after their car entered the Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, state-run National News Agency reported, a day after a Jabal Mohsen resident was stabbed and beaten up in al-Qobbeh.
“Gunmen assaulted the two citizens Mohammed Fatfat and Shadi al-Jaam as their car was passing through Jabal Mohsen,” NNA said.
The army intervened and evacuated them from the neighborhood, the agency added.
The incident comes on the heels of an attack of a similar nature on Monday, when unknown attackers assaulted a Syrian resident of Jabal Mohsen in the nearby neighborhood of al-Qobbeh.
More than 20 attacks have targeted Jabal Mohsen residents in several areas of Tripoli in recent months.
Separately, Wahib Jerjes and Elie Foufani were lightly injured when a stun grenade was tossed near the St. George Church in the churches street in Tripoli's al-Zahriyeh, NNA said.
Security forces arrived on the scene and launched a probe into the incident, the agency added.
Sectarian tensions between Jabal Mohsen and the rival district of Bab al-Tabbaneh date back to Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war but have been exacerbated by the conflict across the border in Syria, where Alawite President Bashar Assad is battling a Sunni-led uprising.
The unrest worsened when twin bombings rocked two Sunni mosques in the city, leaving around 45 people dead and 500 others wounded. Several suspects from Jabal Mohsen have been accused of involvement in the bombings.
The two neighborhoods have been rocked by around 20 rounds of deadly sectarian fighting in recent years.
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