Mufti Qabbani: Firing rockets at Chiyah aims at creating strife between Lebanese people

Mufti of the Republic Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani said on Sunday that firing grad rockets at Chiyah aims at creating strife between the Lebanese people, expressing surprise toward the fact that the rockets were fired from a Lebanese region to another. He added that the incident has dangerous signs and will have many repercussions on Lebanon.              

“The Lebanese citizens and leaders should be awakened by this warning before Lebanon explodes,” he said.                

Two rockets hit Beirut’s southern suburb on Sunday wounding several people, including Syrian nationals. One of the rockets landed in a car sales yard next to a busy road junction in the Chiyah neighborhood while the other hit an apartment several hundred meters away.

The rockets launchers were later found in the hills located between Bsaba and Aitat in Mount Lebanon.

Qabbani called on the Lebanese government to intensify its security measures in order to reveal and prevent such criminal acts from being repeated.                                

On the other hand, Sheikh Qabbani expressed his concern toward the “painful events taking place in Tripoli and threatening of destroying the North, dragging the whole region into strife and turning it into a part of the ongoing regional conflicts.”                

In this context, he urged the residents of Tripoli to remain vigilant and aware of the dangerous consequences of the battles.