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☆ Lebanon Christian cleric urges state control of weapons after clash
  + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
BEIRUT, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Lebanon's top Christian cleric called for state control over weapons on Sunday, days after a deadly clash between Christian villagers and the heavily armed group Hezbollah over an overturned truck of ammunition. A Hezbollah member and a Christian resident were killed in Wednesday's exchange of fire in the village of Kahaleh, near Beirut, which began when a Hezbollah truck carrying ammunition turned over while driving through the area. In his sermon on Sunday, cleric Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai called for "all parties" and other elements of the country "to unite under the banner of the state, especially regarding the use of weapons". Its arsenal has long been a point of conflict in Lebanon, where its opponents accuse the group of undermining the state. Lebanon has been suffering a four-year-long financial collapse that has marked its most destabilising episode since the 1975-90 civil war.
Persons: Bechara Boutros, Rai, Maya Gebeily, Nick Macfie Organizations: Iran's, Guards, Thomson Locations: BEIRUT, Kahaleh, Beirut, Iran, Lebanese, Lebanon
☆ Two dead in clashes between Lebanon's Hezbollah, residents of Christian town -sources
  + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
[1/2] Lebanese army members gather near the area where a lorry was overturned in the town of Kahaleh, Lebanon August 9, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed AzakirBEIRUT, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Two people were killed on Wednesday in clashes between members of Shi'ite armed group Hezbollah and residents of a Christian town after residents surrounded an overturned lorry, two security sources told Reuters. The truck overturned on a downhill turn near the mountain town of Kahaleh on Wednesday evening and residents swiftly shut down the road around it, the sources said. One of the security sources said the truck belonged to Hezbollah and that one of the dead was a member of the group while the second was a Christian resident of the town. Hezbollah is a powerful party that retained its weapons following Lebanon's civil war and has deployed in neighbouring Syria.
Persons: Mohamed Azakir, Amal, Maya Gebeily, Laila Bassam, Chris Reese, Leslie Adler Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Al, MTV Lebanon, Hezbollah, Thomson Locations: Kahaleh, Lebanon, Mohamed Azakir BEIRUT, Syria, Beirut
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