Arsal Municipal Chief Asks for Army Protection Against Syrian Incursions
The municipal chief of the Bekaa border town of Arsal complained on Sunday that the area has witnessed five violations by the Syrian army in one month, urging the army to protect the residents.
In remarks to Voice of Lebanon radio station (100.5), Mohammed al-Hujairi said: “The number of (Lebanese) army (troops) in the area is limited and cannot protect it.”
“The town witnessed five Syrian violations in a month,” he said, urging “the army and the state to protect it.”
Al-Hujairi made his comment a day after a villager, Khaled al-Fliti, was buried after he died from wounds he suffered in a Syrian cross-border fire earlier in the week.
One of his relatives, Mohammed al-Fliti was also injured in the area of Kherbet Daoud when Syrian troops opened fire on them while they were attending their herds.
Arsal has around 35,000 residents from 12 families, including the al-Hujairi family, the town’s biggest.
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