Cautious calm prevails over Lebanese border villages

         
Cautious calm prevails over Lebanese villages sharing the border with Syria, specifically west of the Bekaa valley.           

In one of the villages, Sareen, residents confirmed that they will remain in their town despite rockets having crashed on their town last night from the Syrian side of the border.                

“Our village is one of resistance and we shall remain loyal to our convictions,” said one of the residents.                

On the other hand, security sources denied rumors stating that two members from the Nasreddine family had been kidnapped, stressing that they have all been media fabrications.              

Violence from Syria's civil war has increasingly spilled into Lebanon. Rocket fire from rebel-held border areas has fallen on the pro-Hezbollah, Shi'ite town of Hermel in recent weeks, in apparent response to the group's battle across the border in Qusayr.               

Syrian forces have also crossed the poorly defined border in pursuit of rebels.    

Deeper inside Lebanon, street fighting fuelled by tensions over Syria has killed dozens of people in the northern city of Tripoli, and two rockets were fired last month towards Hezbollah-controlled south Beirut.