(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian teenage girl was kidnapped early Saturday by a Lebanese man from her refugee camp of in Bekaa Valley, activists said.
Ali Abu Sweid, an armed militant, has kidnapped Fatema al Hamad, 14, from Ali Helal refugee camp in Zahle in front of her mother and brother, the initial reports said.
Human rights advocates echoed fears of high scale of abuses committed against SYrian refugees in Lebanon including sexual harassments and kidnapping and forced disappearances.
Meanwhile, the Army of Conquest, key alliance group north Syria, vowed in statement issued Saturday to revenge to martyred clerics killed Thursday in Arsal.
Fatah Army said the members of Qalamoun Sharia Society are not linked to Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, accusing Iran-proxy Hezbollah Shiite militia of carrying out the roadside car bomb against Syrian scholars in Arsal northeast Lebanon, killing nine people, including the head of the society, Sheikh Othman Mansour.
The key rebel group in Syria said Hezbollah tried to take advantage of the deadly attack by linking the scholars ti Nusra and to justify their killing as well to bush Lebanese army to conduct more attacks.
On Friday, three women were killed in in Lebanese border town of Arsal in Lebanese army shelling.
Syria's civil war has regularly spilled over into Lebanon, which shares a more than 300 km (190 mile) border with its bigger neighbor, and is still rebuilding after its own 15-year civil war.
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