Repeated military deployments into the city and constant patrols on Syria Street have failed to calm the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, and sectarian fighting shows no sign of slowing down, with Sunnis and Alawites clashing from their respective neighborhoods.
Six more were killed and 40 wounded in today’s fighting, with the districts trading not just machine gun fire but rocket attacks, and fear that the city could come under artillery strike. At least 17 have been killed over the course of the week.
Officials and religious leaders both insist that the army is capable of restoring order, but with Syria’s civil war continuing to worsen, the spillover shows no signs of slowing down.
Though Lebanon has its share of sectarian tensions, the fighting in Tripoli seems entirely a function of the Syrian war, with Sunnis from the neighborhood backing the Syrian rebels clashing with members of the Alawite minority, the same sect as Syrian President Bashar Assad.
It is Lebanon's curse that it has the Lataniv river. Israel has wasted its water because it knows the USA will provide the military equipment to allow Israel to steal neighbors water. If you read the Moshe Sharie diary you will see the Israel planned to invade Syria as early as 1953 but elected to attack Egypt first because Egypt was schedule to get modern weapons from Russia and if Egypt got the weapons they could not be attacked. Syria is part of operation clean break which is israel taking control of the middle east. BTW Moshe Sharie was the second prime minister of Israel so he would have known the truth of early Israel