Suleiman: Shelling of Lebanese Border Towns Attempt to Drag Country to Syrian Crisis
President Michel Suleiman condemned on Saturday the latest shelling of Lebanese towns bordering Syria in the Bekaa region.
He said: “The shelling is an attempt to drag Lebanon towards the Syrian crisis.”
“It is unacceptable for innocent Lebanese people to pay the price for these attempts,” he stressed.
The president therefore called on all sides within Syria to refrain from targeting Lebanese territories “under any excuse.”
In addition, Suleiman called on all Lebanese powers against getting involved in the Syrian crisis and to respect the Baabda Declaration.
On Friday, several rockets fired from the Syrian side of the border landed on the town of Brital in the Bekaa Valley.
One of them caused material damage after hitting the house of a soldier.
Lebanese border towns in the Bekaa have frequently come under Syrian shelling since the eruption of the uprising in the neighboring country and since Hizbullah acknowledged that it had sent fighters to Syria to fight alongside the ruling regime.
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