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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
13-year-old killed in Lebanon clash over Syria: Security
2013-10-23
[Al Ahram] A 13-year-old child was killed and 11 other people maimed in a guanfight in Leb's Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
Tuesday between supporters and opponents of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
, a security official said.

Clashes broke out Monday night, as an interview with Assad was being aired on television. There was relative calm on Tuesday, but fighting resumed during the evening.

"Fighting on several fronts in Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tebbaneh has killed a 13-year old boy and maimed 11 other people, some of them critically," the official told AFP.

The army was deployed in the area, and shot back at the sources of fire, he added.

The 13-year-old victim was from Jabal Mohsen, a majority Alawite neighbourhood in Tripoli whose residents support Assad.

The majority of Bab al-Tebbaneh's residents are Sunni, and support the anti-Assad revolt in neighbouring Syria.

Both neighbourhoods are extremely poor and marginalised, and lack adequate medical facilities.

Sipping coffee on a roadside, Bilal Allush, a 30-year-old vegetable seller from a nearby neighbourhood, told AFP "we all want this violence to end.

"Those people fighting, they are just criminals. Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking...
whenever there's a clash, people like me can't work and our families suffer."

Bab al-Tebbaneh is home to Tripoli's main vegetable market, where vendors like Allush can buy in bulk.

"I couldn't go buy vegetables from the market, so I haven't made any money today. My family survives on my daily income. I have four children," he said.
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