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Report: Hezbollah's Kahale truck was headed for Ain el-Helweh

The Hezbollah ammunition truck that overturned Wednesday in Kahale was headed for the clashes-hit Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh near Sidon, Palestinian sources said.

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Mawlawi: No partisan motive in Ain Ebel, security forces protected civil peace in Kahale

Caretaker Inrterior Minister Bassam Mawlawi on Monday announced that there were no “partisan motives” behind the abduction and killing of Lebanese Forces member Elias Hasrouni in the southern town of Ain Ebel.

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Raad says Hezbollah will never be 'dragged into strife'

Hezbollah’s top lawmaker Mohammed Raad has stressed that his party will never be “dragged into strife” in Lebanon, in the wake of the deadly clash involving Hezbollah in the Christian town of Kahale.

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Qaouq urges president who can 'protect civil peace' after Kahale unrest

Senior Hezbollah official Sheikh Nabil Qaouq has lauded what he described as “the patriotic stance of former president General Michel Aoun” in the wake of the deadly Kahale incident.

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Al-Rahi voices pain over deaths of both Kahale man, Hezbollah member

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday expressed his "pain and grief with the dear residents of Ain Ebel" over the death of Lebanese Forces member Elias Hasrouni, who was abducted and killed earlier this month.

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Qassem says Kahale incident attempt to 'fabricate nonexistent issue'

Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has visited the family of slain Hezbollah member Ahmed Qassas, who was killed in the Kahale clash on Wednesday.

“The footage revealed that Qassas was the symbol of honor, loyalty and dignity in his resistant position and he sacrificed his blood for the interest of Lebanon,” Qassem told the family.

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Nasrallah meets with leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has met with Ziad Nakhalah, the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, who was accompanied by his deputy Mohammed al-Hindi, a Hezbollah statement said on Sunday.

The talks tackled “the latest developments in Palestine, Lebanon and the region,” the statement added.

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Kataeb denies intention to take up arms after Kahale incident

A Kataeb Party source has clarified remarks voiced by party chief Sami Gemayel from the unrest-hit town of Kahale, noting that the Kataeb leader did not call for taking up arms to confront Hezbollah.

“We are no longer in traditional political moment and Hezbollah must decide whether or not it wants to live with the rest of the Lebanese under the ceiling of the constitution and equality,” the source told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper in remarks published Saturday.

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Preliminary audit report slams central bank and Salameh

A preliminary forensic audit of Lebanon's central bank by professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has painted a damning picture of the institution under long-serving former governor Riad Salameh.

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TL goes off air, Makari says closure not permanent

Lebanon’s national television, Tele Liban, went off air on Friday amid an employees’ strike.

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