One killed in Lebanon’s Tripoli clashes

May 17th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The Lebanese official, whose name was not mentioned in the report, said fighting began at around 4:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT) on Thursday between supporters of the Damascus government, from the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood of Tripoli, and its opponents, who come from the nearby Bab al-Tibbaneh neighborhood.

The Thursday clashes involved the use of “rockets and machineguns,” the official said.

Fighting between the supporters of the Syrian government and its opponents erupted on May 12 as anti-Damascus demonstrators tried to approach the offices of the pro-Damascus Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Tripoli.

Lebanese security forces intervened to disperse the demonstrators, who were calling for the release of Shadi al-Mawlawi, arrested in Tripoli over allegations of having links to a “terrorist organization.”

Reports say nine people, excluding the one person who died on Thursday, have been killed as a result of the clashes between the two rival groups in Tripoli since May 12.

HSN/JR/MA