Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri issued a statement announcing his apology for not receiving well-wishers on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, due to the current circumstances the country is going through and mourning the souls of the victims who drowned in a death boat off the shores of Tripoli.
“I present my most sincere supplication and best wishes that these occasions carry the values of faith and titles of steadfastness and sacrifice, a station from which we draw inspiration from all these titles and lessons in order to save Lebanon, preserve its unity, civil peace and preserve human dignity in it.”
Berri concluded: “Greetings and congratulations to Palestine and its people for Jerusalem on its international day for Al-Aqsa and the Church of the Resurrection to the throats of the stationed in the courtyards of the Masra al-Nabawiya.”