Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil kicked off a tour on Sunday in South Lebanon, where he called on the Lebanese military to assume its responsibility in the northeastern border town of Arsal.

“The mistakes that were done in Arsal shouldn’t reoccur and the cabinet and the army should assume their responsibilities and not become spectators,” Bassil said from the Hasbaya region.

He said in a statement that “the resistance was established due to the failure of the Lebanese state to challenge (the Israeli) occupation… and we are witnessing the same thing nowadays in the fight against takfiri groups.”

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