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The security situation in the Bekaa is dangerous and the Bekaa’is complain about the state’s scandalous absence from the scene of tribal revenge disputes. After two days of continuous military parades that were broadcast on social media by tribal militants armed with various types of weapons and machine guns and missiles, following the murder of a young man from the Al-Shams clan by armed men from the Jaafar clan as a result of a revenge operation, Baalbek Governor Hermel reassured Bashir Khader via Twitter. Noting that the Lebanese army sent reinforcements to the region “to remove the wick of sedition, establish security and arrest the outlaws,” warning that “what is happening in Baalbek is extremely dangerous and offensive to Baalbek-Hermel and its people “.
The people of the Bekaa, from Baalbek to Hermel, suffer before others the repercussions of the breach of security and the weapons spread without deterrence in the hands of outlaws, as sources on the ground confirm to “Nidaa Al Watan” that barely passes a day without armed confrontations or a security operation, whose heroes go armed and terrorize people In their homes and on the roads, firing shots and missiles into the air like Hollywood action movies, in the midst of a total absence of state security , these people encouraged more rebellion and austerity. However, sources pointed out that the tension that has been building for days between the two tribes of Shamas and Jafar portends the worst unless the state rushes to establish the position.
“The weapon is the adornment of men”, “blood with blood” and “vengeance establishes the presence and strength” are the tribal bases in Baalbek-Hermel and other areas that witness similar apparitions. Failure to adhere to them indicates submission, loss of courage, and masculinity. The Bekaa witnessed a series of revenge operations in which Lebanese army personnel also participated, in the context of revenge operations by military elements for their participation in certain arrests or shooting against armed men who did not comply with a control of security. Likewise, the pace of revenge operations between families and clans in the region is intensifying, causing the State to lose much of its presence and prestige so that the “law of the jungle” prevails.
The murder of Muhammad Shamas last Sunday in the Nabi Anam neighborhood of Baalbek sparked a front of fire between the Jaafar and Shams clans. In the details of the incident, according to field sources, two years ago there was an individual problem between young people from the two clans, during which two brothers of Muhammad Shamas killed a young man from the Jaafar family in the Baalbek market, and The efforts led to the handing over of the perpetrators to the Lebanese state and restricting the “rival” of the Jaafar clan to the two young men. Without harming your family. Consequently, her brother opened a shop in the Nabi Anam neighborhood and started working there. After one of his brothers was released from prison days before he was killed, and when the young men of the Jaafar clan were unable to kill him, Muhammad was killed in his place on Sunday afternoon, when the revenge operation was accompanied by shooting and intimidation of citizens to make way in front of the car that was carrying out the operation and to ensure their access to Al-Sharawna, to begin with. The joy of revenge, when the city was burned with rockets and bullets for hours. This fact led the al-Shamas family to prepare for revenge against the four young men who carried out the revenge operation. In recent days, “military parades” of armed men from the two tribes armed with machine guns, projectiles and missiles loaded into columns of cars and all-terrain vehicles have followed.
Given the deployment of the army and the sending of reinforcements to the region, it seems that the political and security contacts have cooled the terrain of the problem, especially since the Jaafar clan issued a statement in which they regretted what happened and trusted wisdom of the wise men of the Shams family.
