Political Parties React to Deadly Khalde Clashes
President Michel Aoun followed up Sunday on the “tragic security incidents” in the area of Khalde, asking the army to take instant measures to restore calm, the Presidency said.
Aoun also called on the army to “arrest the shooters, withdraw the gunmen (from the streets) and secure citizens’ movement on the international highway,” the Presidency added in a statement.
The President considered that “the current circumstances do not allow for any security violation or practices that inflame sedition,” calling on all parties to “cooperate” to help in stifling discord, the statement said.
Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab for his part held a series of phone calls and stressed the need to foil “sedition schemes.”
Diab’s calls involved ex-PM Saad Hariri, caretaker Defense Minister Zeina Akar, caretaker Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi, Army chief General Joseph Aoun and Hizbullah, the Premiership said.
PM-designate Najib Miqati meanwhile called the army chief, who reassured him that “the army will reinforce its presence in the area to control the situation.”
Miqati also called on the area’s residents to “show awareness and restraint in order to preserve lives and not be be dragged into sedition and meaningless fighting.”
Hizbullah for its part decried what it called a “premeditated ambush” that targeted Ali Chebli’s mourners, urging the army and security forces to “intervene in a decisive way to impose security and work quickly on arresting the criminal killers in order to put them on trial.”
Al-Mustaqbal Movement for its part said it held a series of contacts, especially with the leaders of Khalde’s Arab tribes, with the aim of “pacification” and preventing any sectarian strife.
Speaking to al-Jadeed TV, Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat said he was ready to seek a reconciliation between the parties in cooperation with Speajer Nabih Berri, ex-PM Hariri and Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan.
Noting that he does not think that the clashes will lead to sectarian strife, Jumblat called for arresting the shooters immediately and for reaching a reconciliation, because “the road of the South is everyone’s road.”
over 2 years
Funny??
Funny how Hezbollah is never punished when found guilty!
Funny how Hezbollah people get out of jail within hours!
Funny how Hezbollah is free to murder and kill at will!
Funny how Hezbollah is the only armed militia in this country!
Funny how the « resistance » fights in Syria and Yemen to free Lebanon from Israel!
Yeah… funny is the word mastika.
But what is funnier, is that nobody can stand your mercenaries anymore…even from within your own sect!
over 2 years
Today… 3 of tour men fell.
Many more will die in the months to come…
over 2 years
Funny how hezb reallt is an iranian organization pretending to be lebanese.
over 2 years
lol @'unarmed mourners'
over 2 years
We all can see 'unarmed' Hezbollah mourners in the picture above:)
over 2 years
ufffff.....uffffff..... takfiris in Khalde!!!!!!
over 2 years
These Arab Tribes deserves more respect than the police and army. They saw how none of them budged to arrest the terrorist, they apprehended him on their own and unfortunately died because he was armed and represented a direct threat .
Chapeau bas !
over 2 years
Mystic:
When Ali Chebli and his Hezbollah gang shot and killed the 12 year old boy last September, was the boy armed?
To your knowledge was anybody arrested for his murder although the assailants were clearly visible on video?
Now, you are whining about gangs when you belong to the biggest criminal gang of all: Hezbollah.
over 2 years
Yep very funny how much your criminal terrorist Hezbollah respect the state. Tell me Did Hezbollah 'armed squads' come to liberate Khalde from the 'zionist' enemy or the 'takfiris'? And, who gave them the mandate to fight the 'cowards' of Khalde? You people must all face the guillotine!
over 2 years
Oh, I have another question for you: when will Hezbollah be brave enough to liberate Shebaa farms and Jerusalem?
over 2 years
Hezbollah:"we affirm our absolute rejection of all kinds of killing". They parade a flag with an assault rifle. They launch bombs and missiles at kids and families across the middle east. They kill any opposition to their rule. Their goal is to wipe out a sect in Palestine/Israel.
very credible
over 2 years
So, you kill a young boy in cold blood infront of his mother a few months ago. Then you come back to the same place where he was killed, take down his picture, and smash it and expect his people to welcome you with open arms? They should have massacred the whole lot of you criminals.
over 2 years
What about MBS?
over 2 years
It was the same thing that happened in 2008, when khalde gangs fought for Saad Hariri.
They got a good beating then, and they got a good beating now.
They quickly scattered when they faced the challenge of fighting real squads and not unarmed mourners.
over 2 years
Did those two Iranian shia terrorists in your avatar get a good beating when they faced the challenge of fighting real squads and not unarmed civilians?
over 2 years
Anybody that shoots at Hizb cannot be a bad person... 3 Hizbis dead, so all in all it was a good day
over 2 years
"Aoun have followed the incident", what a Joke. This man is the cause of what's happening and yet he follows up. Only things like these happen in a fragmented country like Lebanon. These incidents will always happen as long as Aoun and Basil are in power. They are the cancer of this country, in addition to, the Maronites which is the bigger cancer. Lebanon should be based on civil law and not on which religion one ascribes to to get a public position. these are stone ages ways, which are still highlighted by Al Rahi, who is still fomenting religious strife in the country, when what's needed is a country free the likes of him and the other religious leaders, especially, this cancerous Nasrallah, who is the king of all troubles in this country.
How many civilians have hezbstakfarallah attacked, injured and killed? You reap what you sow.