Christians in Lebanon are celebrating the release of several prisoners abducted by the Syrian regime during decades of occupation and finally freed on Sunday after the sudden fall of Assad's regime.
Lorient today reported:
Suhail Hamawi, a Lebanese citizen held captive in Syria for 33 years, has returned to his home in northern Lebanon. According to correspondent Michel Halak, Hamawi, who claims to have been arrested at his home in Chekka in December 1992, arrived in the village accompanied by a brass band and was welcomed by relatives for an emotional reunion. It is said that it was achieved.
In an interview with local television, Hamawi recalled her ordeal, saying she was arrested when her son was 10 months old. Now a grandfather, Hamawi is eager to see his family after decades apart. He revealed that he was transferred to several Syrian regime prisons and ended up in a coastal facility in Latakia, where he was the only Lebanese detainee. His family had no information about his whereabouts for 15 years, but later managed to locate him and communicated with him from time to time. Mr Howie paid tribute to his wife, who endured what he described as great hardship in his absence.
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There are reports that other Lebanese detainees have been released, but only one other case has been confirmed. Ali Hassan al-Ali, a man from Akkar, was released from Hama prison last week. However, according to his family, al-Ali has not yet returned to Lebanon.
Some of the missing Christians were political activists. Some were members of Christian militias active during the Lebanese civil war in the 20th century.
Syria ruled Lebanon for decades before being overthrown by Iran and its proxy group Hezbollah, which supported the shaky Assad regime while continuing to dominate Lebanese politics.
Many commenters on social media took former Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who is Christian, at his word when he claimed that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had no more Lebanese prisoners in Syria. I'm furious that I accepted it.
Some praise Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel's leadership during the war started last October by Iranian proxies Hamas and Hezbollah ultimately led to Hezbollah's destruction and removal of its leadership, leaving Assad defenseless.
The Iranian regime's own strategy of surrounding Israel with a “ring of fire” made up of terrorist proxies was culminated in Hamas' decision to launch a brutal October 7 terrorist attack that underestimated Israel's ability to respond. Some people accused him of failing.
Although there are still widespread concerns about the fate of Christians in Syria, there is widespread jubilation at the fall of the Syrian regime, especially since the Syrian rebels who overthrew Assad are radical Islamists with ties to terrorism. is rising.
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