Families of the kidnapped Lebanese troops held on Thursday Prime Minister Tammam Salam responsible for any potential risk to their sons’ lives, asking Qatar and Turkey to work in order to secure the release of the abductees.
Hussein Youssef, one of the captives’ relatives, said Health Minister Wael Abou Faour stressed he will follow up on the captives’ dossier, noting that the minister discussed with the General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim the latest developments in this regard.
Families of the abducted troops blocked, earlier Thursday, the Damour road in both directions to protest procrastinations in the file.
They also cut off the Saifi road in Beirut and burned tires until the cabinet session wrapped up its work today.
The protesters described their movement as “a warning and a message for the cabinet.”
The hostage troops and policemen were captured when jihadists from the Nusra Front and the Islamic State militant groups briefly overran the border town of Arsal last August and engaged in fierce battles with the Lebanese army.
Four captives have so far been executed, and the jihadists have threatened to kill the remaining hostages unless there is a deal to free Islamist prisoners in Lebanon.