The following are summaries of today's major stories
published in the Arabic press. LBCI does not edit press digest articles for
content, giving English-language readers insight into the various views
expressed in newspapers across the Arab world.
On Monday morning, a family lost a newborn while the causes
of death remain shrouded in mystery.
Charbel
Mansour, a three-month-old baby, was given to a day care center in New Jdeideh
by his father, Fadi Mansour, as
he did every morning.
When Mansour came
back at 1:00 p.m. to pick him up, he was informed that his son was rushed
to Arz Hospital.
The father rushed to the hospital where he found his son dead
without being informed of the cause of death.
The father filed a complaint with Antelias gendarmerie
station to take the necessary legal actions.
Medical sources explained to
As-Safir daily that the blood
that ran from Charbel’s nose indicates that the baby received a strike on his
head, adding that he could have received the strike at home or the day care
center.
In turn, Arz hospital reported that the reasons behind the
death are still unknown.
As-Safir tried to contact the head of the concerned day care
center, Hana Joujou, to ask for her opinion on the matter. However, she did not
respond.
An-Nahar daily quoted MP Sami Gemayel on Wednesday as
commenting on the course that the parliamentary session will likely take after
bringing up the issue of Hezbollah’s monitoring of individuals and meetings
taking place in Antelias, Dbayeh, Jounieh and Jbeil, as announced last Monday
by Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Nawaf Moussawi.
Gemayel said that Hezbollah admitted the fact that it is
infiltrated in our cities, villages and streets, wondering “who are they [Hezbollah]? And
who gave them the right to monitor, accuse, investigate and request the
handover of who they consider [U.S. spy] agents? What role does the state play?”
As-Safir daily reported on Wednesday that Energy Minister
Gebran Bassil announced that the meeting he held with Parliament Speaker Nabih
Berri’s aide Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's
political aide, Hajj Hassan Khalil, “paved a new path of coordination and
cooperation in light of the allies’ follow-up on the FPM’s demands.”
Bassil confirmed that “the fundamentals have been agreed on;
what remains is the implementation.”
In this context,
As-Safir daily reported that a broad meeting
is likely to take place soon between high-ranking figures of the former
opposition coalition in a bid to fixate the agreements that have been so far
reached.
As-Safir daily quoted Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday as
highlighting the importance of “entrenching the pillars of the majority” in the
face of current and upcoming events.
Berri stressed that the results of the deliberations he held
with his aide, Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's political
aide Hajj Hassan Khalil and energy Minister Gebran Bassil are positive and will
reflect positively on the majority’s performance.
As-Safir daily reported on Wednesday that UNIFIL Force
Commander Major-General Alberto Asarta told Speaker Nabih Berri during their
Tuesday meeting in Ain Tineh that he is aware that the resistance does not seek
any security instability in the south.
Asarta voiced discontentment over the shaking of the south's stability after he stated that stability in the south is exemplary and that the
south is the most stable region.
Asarta confirmed that the relation between the southerners,
Amal Movement, Hezbollah and UNIFIL is good, adding that he received many
farewell letters from the southerners as the expiration of his term
neared.
According to the daily, Berri told Asarta that the recent
incident in the south targets the resistance, stressing that the south is not
“a public pool”.
Berri also confirmed that the UNIFIL’s stability is part of
the national defense strategy which is grounded on the army, the people and the
resistance equation.