Syrian Jets Bombard House at Outskirts of Arsal
Syrian warplanes pounded on Wednesday a house on the outskirts of the eastern border town of Arsal.
The house belongs to a member of al-Awad family, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The NNA said that the shelling only caused material damage.
"Two rockets were launched, though no casualties were caused. There are several houses in the area where the rockets landed," said Ahmed Fliti, deputy mayor of Arsal.
The two-year long violence in Syria has increasingly spilled over into Lebanon, with cross-border shelling in the north and east.
"A helicopter fired two rockets on Jubaneh al-Shmis on the outskirts of Arsal. The area lies several hundred meters (yards) away from a Lebanese army checkpoint," a Lebanese security official told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.
In March, President Michel Suleiman denounced the Syrian airstrikes in Lebanese territories but Damascus, in its first comments on the attacks, denied it was involved.
The region of Arsal has been said to be used for the smuggling of arms and the flow of fighters across the border.
Arsal is a majority Sunni town, many of whose residents support the revolt against President Bashar Assad in neighboring Syria.
The area lies on the border with Syria, and has become home to thousands of people fleeing their the conflict.
Scores of Syrians injured in the violence have been brought into Arsal for medical treatment in recent months, and there have been reports of fighters and arms being smuggled in.
Syrian authorities had threatened to attack Lebanese territories if “terrorists” continue to infiltrate the country from Lebanon.
Lebanese parties are sharply divided over the developments in Syria despite the dissociation policy that was adopted by the state.
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where's the protection of the so called resistance
what a bunch of frauds..
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of course they might have tried but it would have been a different ball game altogether.
second, instead of fighting FSA inside syria, why dont they fight them inside lebanon to protect the border. since disassociation policy has been dumped in the trash by both sides, im sure thats not the excuse
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Mowatan wonders why we get sectarian in our talks, he just accused any sunni of being a FSA agent, see why we hate you people, you dish it out but cry & call people names when we give it back, you are scumbags
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(l you want HA to fight syria in order to protect the FSA bases in lebanon?) Where is your evidence this is a FSA base? you just jumped to the conclusion cause it is a sunni area. Your indirectly attacked them, maybe syria is being a bully & attacking them as a warning to not help or aid the FSA. We know they behave like this from their massacres of pro revolution villages , collective punishment. You should shut your moth more often. may help your cause
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I dont hate shia, i hate hezballah & their puppets, even if they were druze I would be just as cold towards them & tell them what I think.
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Yeah well maybe this started after you called me a stupid dirzee & after you and your iranian puppets posted a tirade of abuse against jumblat & the people from the chouf
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mowaten,no one gave your hizb permission to bomb and kidnap Israel's army personal either , ..flawed logic.true lebanese stick with each other not betray one another to a foreign country becouse it suits them ..a true traitor.
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there too busy doing there jehadist duties killing innocent civilians on behalf there master assad
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& that's all it is, war on sunnis & freedom, and next, it will be a war on the druze of syria by assad for not taking sides, mass arrests, torture, etc if Assad winds, I pray to god the FSA are victorious.
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so you just dont mind lebanese villages being turned into a slaughterhouse, as long as the HA territories are untouched?
and second are you suggesting that if in reality israel does bomb specific HA targets without hitting the infrastructure, we should all be ok about it?
you keep talking about how the south and HA were left to fend for their own after the war and no one looked at them, and now you are telling everyone to do just that to the border villages that are being raided by syria.
the point here isnt who is being bombed, it is the double standards of HA who only resist the people they choose to be enemies.
others who have a more criminal past with the lebanese are thanked for their services.
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so, what is the role of the resistance if it is not resisting foreign aggression,
unless of course they don't consider syria 'foreign'
and now, they need a new raison d'etre to justify their arms. First free the south, then shabaa got mixed in, the Palestinian 'cause', to protect their drug and weapons trade and who knows what is next...
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Pretty much what your are saying is the end justifies the means, no matter if Lebanese civilians die. Truly your an embarrassment to the Lebanese. You need to check yourself into mental hospital, you definitely have cognitive dissonance.....your such an addlepate!
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Its ok, Syria is out brotherly nation, this is just like an older brother hitting the younger brother out of love, just ask hezbalah & aoun
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We should all unite when ANY foreign power attacks our homeland...but some parties keep justifying Assad's attacks on us...shame on you...
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We should all unite when ANY foreign power attacks our homeland
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Syrian zionist Army
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I pray that they exterminate each other completely.
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where is M8 and their claim to a sovereign lebanon??? they just find it normal that a foreign country bombs us....
tfeh...
What is next? Using drones.