The Head of Hezbollah's religious committee Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek visited on Saturday the house of Lebanese Armed Forces martyr Mohammad Hamieh who was killed by al-Nusra Front.
“If it wasn't for the blood of [our] martyrs, the whole region would have been invaded and destroyed,” Sheikh Yazbek said, noting that sedition is taking its toll on everyone.
“We will not abandon the captive Lebanese soldiers,” he added.
The family of martyr
Hamieh has voiced outrage after watching a video depicting his killing by Al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
The victim’s father, Maarouf Hamieh, called for sparing Syrians in Lebanon any kind of attacks, holding Al-Hujeiri family responsible for the killing of his son.
The al-Nusra Front released on Saturday a video depicting the execution of the Lebanese soldier Mohammad Hamieh with a bullet to the head.
The video also showed Lebanese soldier Ali al-Bazzal pleading his family to act or else he will be executed too.
In the same regard, Turkey's Anatolia news agency quoted on Saturday (September 06) a commander of the Islamic State as saying that the group had executed one of the captured Lebanese Armed Forces soldiers for trying to escape.
"LAF soldier Abbas Medlej tried to escape from prison and after he attempted to open fire at IS members, we took control of the situation by slaughtering him," the Islamic State- Qalamoun branch said in a statement.
Also on August 28, the Islamic State posted photos and a video online depicting a militant beheading a blindfolded hostage who was identified as Lebanese Armed Forces Sergeant Ali al-Sayyed.
On Sunday (August 31), Lebanon's military said an al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel group released five members of the Lebanese security forces captured earlier in August in a cross-border raid.
The men were taken hostage when militants from Syria took over the Lebanese border town of Arsal for five days before withdrawing toward the Syrian frontier, taking with them Lebanese soldiers and policemen as hostages. The clashes were the most dangerous spillover of violence from the civil war in neighboring Syria.
The clashes flared up when Syrian gunmen deployed across the region after the Lebanese Armed Forces arrested Imad Jomaa at a checkpoint.
While the release of the five men provided a degree of relief, concerns remain about the troops and policemen still in captivity.
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