BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 1 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, called for all Lebanese parties and their supporters to remain calm, amid tensions that erupted in Mount Lebanon’s Aley district earlier in the day, the Presidency’s website reported.
Aoun also called for an emergency meeting on Monday (today) for the Higher Defence Council to discuss the latest security developments in Mount Lebanon.
Lebanese Druze Minister, Saleh Gharib, who is also member of the pro-Syrian Lebanese Democratic Party, headed by Talal Arslan, said earlier that, gunmen opened fire at his convoy, while he was heading to the mountain village of Qabr Shamoun. Two of his guards were killed.
Gharib said, his convoy was attacked by supporters of a rival Druze faction, headed by Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader, Walid Jumblatt.
Tensions erupted Sunday, in Aley, in parallel to a plan for leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, who is an ally of Arslan to visit the area, prompting PSP supporters to block the roads.
PSP leader, Walid Jumblatt, is a long-time critic of Bassil’s role in the government.– NNN-NNA
