NNA - Lebanese General Security Director-General, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, on Friday confirmed at the opening of Al-Moterbeh border crossing in Al-Qasr-Hermel area that as soon as work began at the crossing “we will practically have closed eighteen illegal ones through which the Lebanese residing inside Syrian territories used to take to enter Lebanon."

“This crossing will ease the hardship of our people when crossing from Syria into Lebanon; it will also expand the umbrella of legitimate security over the country and legitimize the movement process through an integrated border crossing, especially now that Syrian official authorities have followed suit by establishing a border post parallel to all the legitimate border crossings between Lebanon and Syria,” Ibrahim explained. 

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