Rockets Hit Town in Hermel, Shells Land in Akkar Villages
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Rockets hit on Saturday a town in the Bekaa a day after the Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed an attack on nearby areas.
The state-run National News Agency reported that two rockets fired the eastern mountain range landed near Hermel public hospital.
Later the NNA reported that three rockets landed in al-Qaa village from Syrian territories.
No casualties were reported.
On Saturday evening, shells launched from the Syrian side of the border landed on the outskirts of the Akkar northern towns of Qashlaq, Wadi Hor, Hikr Janine and Amar al-Bikat, the state news agency said.
"Shells have also hit the outskirts of al-Noura and al-Fraidiss villages near the Grand River's edge," the NNA reported.
ISIL claimed on Friday responsibility for a rocket attack on the outskirts of the towns of al-Labweh and al-Nabi Othman.
The army said in a communique that three rockets landed in the area, saying that it deployed patrols in the areas.
Bekaa towns, with a majority of Shiite population, have repeatedly come under rocket attacks by either rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime or armed men supporting them.
The Syrian troops loyal to Assad also continue to carry out air raids on Arsal, a majority Sunni town, which is an escape route for rebels and smugglers.
In recent months, fighting has raged in and around several towns and villages inhabited by a community of some 15,000 Lebanese Shiites who have lived for decades on the Syrian side of a frontier that is not clearly demarcated in places and not fully controlled by border authorities. They are mostly Lebanese citizens, though some have dual citizenship or are Syrian.
Before Syria's uprising erupted two years ago, tens of thousands of Lebanese lived in Syria.
The Lebanese Shiite enclave on the Syrian side of the border is near the central city of Homs and across from Hermel, a predominantly Shiite region of northeastern Lebanon.
08 March 2014, 16:13
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I do not want to see any Lebanese land become a fair game for Baathist regime, Islamic Lunatics or Zionist Jews. What I want is for the Lebanese State and the LAF to assume their role in protecting every sacred inch of Lebanon and clean up any town from traitors whose loyalties are to foreign entities be it a foreign State or a Zealot Religious extremist. If we do not love our Lebanon enough and we do not respect our LAF enough, then who will?
08 March 2014, 17:29
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dearest samy: Don't be hard on yourself. mowaten always said "it is not an insult if it is true". Hence, he himself gave you an out on this one.
08 March 2014, 20:01
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you seem to like videos, here you go
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=117_1394192847
08 March 2014, 20:21
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Tell us Mowaten: what is the moral difference between shelling people because they are Shia or shelling people they are Sunni? If there is no difference to you, good. It means you eventually admit that Hizbullah is like Nusra, al Qaida or ISIL: they are all of them filthy terrorist scum.
08 March 2014, 20:54
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those heroes will be mourned, because for each ones that falls it means dozens of innocents are saved from the claws of takfiri freaks.
the heroes will be mourned indeed, by their families and their loved ones and all those who respect and appreciate their sacrifice.
but tell me, how come nobody mourns the takfiris? their families disavow them, they refuse to take their bodies and bury them? it's because they know full well what they were doing, not protecting anyone but to the contrary, going to indulge in slaughter and hatred for the thrill of feeling powerful. pathetic.
08 March 2014, 21:55
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wishful thinking southern, the rat said 3 weeks campaign, more than 4 weeks gone and dirty corpse keep coming in bekaa, dahieh and the south.
Khamenei mut be laughing his head off, stupid shia arabs dying for his hegemony...
08 March 2014, 23:10
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not credible for khamenei's boys. But christians from zahle, ashrafieh and all lebanon remember how much the Assads love christians.
Same for syrian christians, whose demographics have been shrinking under the assads.
Here assadis shelling maloula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-M4NBeMRl4
08 March 2014, 23:41
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We hope you both annihilate each other, and let the rest of us live in peace and prosperity.
09 March 2014, 08:41
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respect mowaten southern and others for your truthness and logical comments
