LBN35063

Village Name: 
El Aaqaybe Kesrouane
Last modified: 
Saturday, October 26, 2013 - 22:04
Caza: 
Kasrouane
Local Name: 
El-Ekaeibeh
Title Actors/Parties Involved Description Date of incident Death toll Number of Injured Sources of Conflict Security Incident Category
Mount Lebanon truckers protest quarry closures Lebanese Civilians

BEIRUT: Dozens of truckers protested the recent closure of Mount Lebanon sand quarries by cutting off a highway junction in the town of Kfardebian Thursday.

The drivers blocked the road with their trucks in both directions, creating a huge traffic jam, according to the National News Agency.

Truck drivers held several similar protests last year, blocking the Beirut-Jounieh highway, and roads in the Kesrouan district near sand quarries where authorities had restricted them from entering.

At the time, authorities had refused to renew their permits to extract sand from the areas, but the dispute was later solved.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2016/Apr-21/348556-mount-l...

 Thursday, April 21, 2016 0persons 0persons Collective Action [inc. protests, solidarity movements...]
Police Free Abducted Man, Arrest Kidnappers Lebanese Civilians, ISF Intelligence Branch

The Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch freed on Saturday a Lebanese man, who had been kidnapped in Jbeil, and arrested five of his abductors, police said.
Osama Moawad was kidnapped on the main road of Gharzouz on Saturday morning when he was heading from his house to his workplace.
The abductors had called his family asking for a one million dollar ransom.
Police did not release the identities of the kidnappers but MTV said among them is a member of the Jaafar clan.
An ISF communique said the man was freed when police officers stopped his kidnappers in Kesrouan district as they were transporting him to the eastern Bekaa Valley.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/202069-police-free-abducted-man-arres...

 Saturday, February 13, 2016 0persons 0persons Arrest/Detention, Hostage Taking Situation [inc. attempt, release]
Truckers reopen Mount Lebanon road after 6-day closure Lebanese Civilians, ISF(internal security forces)

Truck drivers protesting access restrictions to quarries recently declared as illegal reopened a Mount Lebanon road after causing major traffic jams over the past six days.
The state-run National News Agency reported that drivers began removing their trucks, indicating that their demands have been met.
The truck drivers kicked off their strike last week on the Faitroun-Mairouba road in the Kesrouan town of Jeita near the rock and sand quarries. The drivers demanded that the sites, which the National Council of the Quarries and Crushers consider to be illegal, be reopened.
The Internal Security Forces had been preventing trucks from crossing into the sites.
The nearly week-long strike caused commuters to be stuck in their vehicles for hours, with traffic police being forced to divert vehicles to alternate routes, causing bumper-to-bumper traffic.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Oct-20/319538-trucker...

 Thursday, October 15, 2015 to Wednesday, October 21, 2015 0persons 0persons Collective Action [inc. protests, solidarity movements...]
Israeli reconnaissance plane circles over Baalbek, Metn and Kesserwan

An Israeli reconnaissance plane violated the Lebanese airspace over the town of Kfarkila in the South at 8:45 a.m., circled over the areas of Riyak, Baalbek, Metn and Kesserwan, and then left at 1:00 p.m. from over the coastal area off al-Naqoura," a Lebanese Army Guidance Directorate communiqué indicated Sunday.

http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/39345/Enemy-reconnaissance-plane-...

 Sunday, January 18, 2015 0persons 0persons Air Space Violation