Jabal Mohsen citizen attacked in Tripoli’s al-Tal square

 
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) quoted on Saturday the media official at the Arab Democratic Party Abdel Latif Saleh as saying that a man from Tripoli’s Jabal Mohsen identified as Mansour Fares was attacked and beaten in the city’s al-Tal Square.

The victim was taken to the Al-Zahraa Hospital in Tripoli for treatment.

The port city of Tripoli has long been a stronghold of Sunni Islamists in northern Lebanon.

But the city has become increasingly volatile in recent months due to the civil war in neighboring Syria, where the Sunni majority is leading a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

Fighting had re-erupted on Monday the 21st of October in the northern city between gunmen of rival Lebanese sects where at least 12 people were killed in the latest round of clashes.

The latest battle also wounded more than 60 people, officials said.

Disputes from neighboring Syria's civil war frequently inflame sectarian grievances in Tripoli.

These clashes pit gunmen from both the mostly Sunni Bab Tabbaneh district and the Jabal Mohsen district which mostly comprises residents of Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite Islam offshoot.

Tensions had been mounting since the 14th of October, when a Lebanese military prosecutor pressed charges against seven men, at least one of whom was from Jabal Mohsen, for their involvement in twin bombings near two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on the 23rd of August that killed 47 people.