KFAR TIBNIT, Lebanon: Sorrow and tears abounded Sunday as Lebanon bid farewell to soldiers killed in clashes in north Lebanon over the weekend between the Army and ISIS-inspired militants.
Hundreds of mourners, some firing weapons into the air, carried the flag-draped coffin of soldier Mohammad Ali Yaseen through an ordinarily quiet south Lebanon village Sunday after he was shot dead a day earlier by militants in the restive north.
Women wailed in grief as the family passed his body through their home in Kfar Tibnit for a last time.
“You must avenge his death and ... all the other martyrs,” Yaseen’s uncle, Ahmad, told uniformed soldiers who took part in the funeral.
Umm Hashem, Yaseen’s neighbor, addressed the women in the funeral march, telling them not to cry.
“Don’t cry. Ululate, because he fought takfiris and that is enough to call him a sergeant,” she said.
Yaseen was killed in a militant ambush in the village of Mhamra in Dinnieh Saturday.
Security sources told The Daily Star gunmen approached Yaseen and another soldier and shot at them, instantly killing one of them.
The second soldier later died of wounds he sustained in the attack, the sources said.
Lebanese troops battled Islamist militants behind attacks in Tripoli and the northern district of Minyeh for a third day Sunday with the death toll rising to 27.
Also Sunday, 1st Lt. Firas al-Hakim was laid to rest in his hometown of Aley, private Ahmad al-Asaad was buried in Safinet al-Qaytaa in Akkar, recruit Abbas Ibrahim was buried in Shmestar In Baalbek, and recruit Jaafar Asaad was buried in Arida in Akkar.
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