Dozens of Anti-Regime Fighters, Including 10 Lebanese, Arrive at Bekaa Hospitals from Qusayr
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Dozens of Syrian and Lebanese fighters wounded in fighting against Syrian regime troops and Hizbullah forces in Qusayr have been evacuated to Lebanon, security officials said Saturday.
They were evacuated as the regime seized the last remaining insurgent bastion in the Qusayr area of central Syria, near the Lebanese border.
The sources said the rebels included around 10 Lebanese Sunnis who had crossed to Syria to join the insurgency.
"Some 30 wounded fighters are being treated in hospitals in the Baalbek area" of eastern Lebanon, a security official told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.
He also said "dozens of wounded rebels" had arrived in the Bekaa border town of Arsal, awaiting treatment.
Another security official in northern Lebanon told AFP that "10 Lebanese Sunnis from (the port city of Tripoli) have been brought back for treatment. We are expecting more to arrive."
Earlier on Saturday, the Beirut-based, pro-Damascus television al-Mayadeen quoted a source as saying that “300 wounded gunmen who had fled Qusayr are now in Arsal and they will be transported to hospitals in the Bekaa and the North in batches."
Later, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Lebanese Red Cross ambulances, escorted by the Lebanese army, transported more than 30 Syrians who were wounded in clashes in Arsal's barren mountains and Qusayr to hospitals in the Lebanese region of Bekaa.
“Eight of them were transported to the Rashaya state-run hospital, 22 to Farhat Hospital in the Western Bekaa town of Jeb Jannine, and several others to hospitals in the Bekaa,” NNA said.
It also reported that a Lebanese man who hails from Tripoli was among the wounded and that his relatives arrived at Rashaya's hospital to move him to another hospital in the North.
Later on Saturday, NNA said nine more wounded fighters were transported for treatment in hospitals in the central and western Bekaa, raising the number of insurgents receiving treatment to 37.
It noted that 10 wounded fighters were transported to hospitals in the Bekaa on Friday.
In the evening, an international Red Cross convoy carrying wounded fighters from Arsal to Bekaa hospitals was pelted with stones on the al-Labweh-Baalbek road, NNA reported.
The convoy, however, continued its trip towards hospitals in the Bekaa, the agency said.
Pro-government forces captured the town of Qusayr on Wednesday after a nearly three-week assault by Assad's troops backed by elite fighters of Hizbullah.
Scores of civilians have also poured this week into the majority Sunni town of Arsal, a local official told AFP.
"Some 30 families arrived today from the Qusayr area," Ahmed al-Hujairi of Arsal municipality told AFP.
"Their situation is very bad -- they arrived exhausted. They have nothing. Some came here on foot," he said, adding that local authorities were short of funds and "only managing to provide basic assistance."
08 June 2013, 17:33
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The bearded verminite in the photo should be sent back to Syria... in a black bag if need be. Lebanon doesn't need any more Islamist filth, just as it doesn't need any Baathists.
08 June 2013, 19:29
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Let this filthy animal rot where he fell. These terrorists don't deserve to be given another chance. Saving one of them has the potential to poison and corrupt the mind of a moderate Sunni by allowing this terrorist to spread his misinterpreted view of Islam.
08 June 2013, 20:52
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We do not need additional scums // terrorist even lebanese wounded fighting somewhere else for whatever reason!!. ALL these fxxks should not be allowed to enter Lebanon at all, and sorry this arsal + hojiri should be closed down at once...enough syrian here with all due respect, Lebanon can NOT bear this burden.
08 June 2013, 20:58
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Jajajaja. But that's why we love him, he's unique. Naharnet wouldn't be the same without him.
08 June 2013, 21:25
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To haile.selassie - don't waste your time, those fossilized creatures will never ever change whatever you try. These are stone age creatures. Their beards is their passport to heavens where the virgins are waiting for them.
08 June 2013, 22:44
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Look at the difference it this picture , Red Cross members ( Christians) Medics helping and aiding a Jihadist/ Wahibist - Al Nusra Rebel Salafists' injuries . But these very scums at the same time are burning our Churches, killing our Christian brothers & sisters, kidnaping our Bishops &Priests , shooting our Deacons in the head in cold blood !! The world will be better without these Salafists/Wahibist ------ Convert to Christianity ! Especially the KSA & the GCC states , first we will teach you that it is wrong to EAT HUMANS !!!
08 June 2013, 23:01
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The Red Cross is a neutral, dedicated organization that provides humanitarian aid regardless of who has fallen. Hope this "soldier" doesn't wake up saying he wanted Red Crescent, not Red Cross.
08 June 2013, 23:09
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@ haile , no offense to you I sometimes agree with your posts , but this one I disagree with you . The Red Cross is run by Christians while in the Islamic World they have the Red Crescent , I think you failed to see my point that I was trying to put across and that is while these so called Rebel Salafists / Wahibist are killing our Christian brothers and kidnaping our Religious leaders as well as burning our Churches , here on the other hand a Christian run world organization the Red Cross are helping the very people that kill us . Don't misunderstand me , but I do hope they stop attacking Christians in Syria !!
09 June 2013, 03:06
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red crescent and red cross are the same organization you ignorant fool.
do some research before you spew your anti islamic view.
08 June 2013, 23:14
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If this was the other way around, I am sure the FSA (and who ever is fighting with them) would kill them in a heart beat.
09 June 2013, 00:41
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beards are a facial expession and the little girls in orange and yellow skirts are afraid of them!!!! look @ all religuous leaders and especialy Hassoun and the bald Aou..the BALD and the UGLY...
09 June 2013, 00:51
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No hard feelings Haile.selassie, now let's go & post our opinion which in general are on the same path .
09 June 2013, 03:09
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jahsh al bustan.....you are a pig.
simply put , you are a baathist pig.killing you would not be a crime.....since its not murder to kill pigs.
09 June 2013, 03:31
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Wash your fowl mouth with soap , including your Mother & Father & Grandparents for producing such a " Fanatical " Robot .......
10 June 2013, 10:58
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i think he should have stayed ...where he belonged ..and rotted to death...bass that me ...
