Syria Bound Fuel Tankers Cross Border a Day after Protest
Several fuel tankers crossed the Masnaa border crossing with Syria on Monday a day after residents blocked their way to prevent them from entering the neighboring country.
According to state-run National News Agency, residents blocked briefly Majdal Anjar junction in the Bekaa Valley with burning tires to protest the crossing of the tankers.
On Sunday, several youth and residents blocked the main road that links Rashaya with the Masnaa crossing to prevent six fuel tankers from crossing to Syria.
The tankers, which were accompanied by military armored personnel carriers, withdrew to the outskirts of Rashaya al-Wadi after the protesters warned that they would burn the trucks.
In March, several Syria-bound fuel tanker trucks were torched in northern Lebanon and the residents of northern border towns blocked the roads that lead to Syria to prevent them from crossing into the country.
The attacks and the protests came to prevent fuel supplies across the border.
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