Caretaker Minister of Defense Ghosn condemns Israeli spying posts along border

Caretaker Minister of Defense Fayez Ghosn slammed on Saturday the spying posts installed by Israel along the Lebanese-Israeli border, urging the Lebanese state to resolve the issue.

In a statement issued by Ghosn's press office,  he called on the Lebanese state to file a complaint to the United Nations Security Council and to carry out investigations in this regard.

Lebanon is set to submit a complaint to the United Nations Security Council over reports stating that Israel had set up several spying posts along its border with Lebanon, starting from al-Naqoura passing by Khayyam until Sheba.

The biggest spying post is reportedly installed in al-Abbad and Jan al-Alam areas, which are located near the U.N. demarcated Blue line.

As for the security situation in the northern city of Tripoli, Ghosn hailed the security procedures undertaken by the Lebanese army to end tensions between the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.

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 21st 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 14 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 23 August that killed 47 people.