Awad Ibrahim to LBCI: It feels as though I were reborn

Commending crowds are still flocking to the Southern Suburbs of Beirut, particularly to newly freed ex-detainee Awad Ibrahim’s home, who arrived in Lebanon back to his family yesterday evening following 4 months of being held captive by Syrian rebels in Aleppo.

Ibrahim was set free on Tuesday and crossed into Turkey where he was accompanied by Interior Minister Marwan Charbel and General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim to Beirut.

Ibrahim expressed awe at his release saying that he still cannot believe that he was home: “I feel as though I were reborn, and do hope that my remaining comrades are in good health”.                       
               
Ibrahim’s liberation comes one month after the  release of Lebanese hostage, Hussein Ali Omar.                                          

The two men were among 11 Lebanese pilgrims kidnapped by a group that claims affiliations with the rebel Free Syrian Army in the northern province of Aleppo on May 22 while on their way home from Iranian pilgrimage sites.                              

9 hostages remain in the custody of the Syrian kidnappers who have asked for an apology from Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, to no avail.