The following are a selection of stories from Lebanese newspapers that may be of interest to Daily Star readers. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports.
Al-Mustaqbal
Machnouk: We will protect churches and mosques with our lives
Commenting on the mounting concerns recently over threats against churches, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk criticized any party that makes such threats.
These groups, he said, “have no faith.”
"Whoever just thinks about harming churches or mosques, we will protect our churches and mosques with our lives; and we will cut off the hand that harm them,” Machnouk told Al-Mustaqbal.
Al-Joumhouria
Full-scale alert following threat against Christians
Concerns heightened after Liwa Ahrar al-Sunna-Baalbek threatened to “burn and destroy” Christian places of worship across Lebanon and particularly in the Bekaa Valley.
The threat raised question marks bout the party that issued this threat and who stands behind it and whether it does exist or that this has been an intelligence game to lay the groundwork for something more dangerous than this threat: destabilization of Lebanon.
To make things worse, an audio recording claimed to be of Qalamoun’s Nusra Front Emir, Abi Malik al-Shafei, has emerged on social media, voicing support for "the inmates in Lebanon prisons,” with a special mention for Roumieh prison.
A senior security official told Al-Joumhouria that while these threats are considered serious, information circulating in the country are inflated and exaggerated.
The official dismissed reports that spoke about the presence of a group of suicide bombers that had been trained and equipped to carry out suicide operations in Lebanon.
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