Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat does not intend to host Syria's Druze in areas where the sect is concentrated in Lebanon, sources said, as a PSP delegation visited Turkey to contain the repercussions of the killing of at least 20 Druze in the neighboring country.
Sources close to Jumblat denied to the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily published on Monday reports that the PSP chief would host Druze from Syria in Lebanon's Shouf district to guarantee their safety.
“The Druze of Idlib (province) and of Syria in general will not leave their land and country which have embraced them for centuries,” said the sources.
Al-Nusra Front said on Saturday it would prosecute members involved in the shoot-out in Idlib that killed at least 20 members of the country's Druze minority.
On Thursday, residents of the village of Qalb Lawzah protested after a Tunisian al-Nusra leader tried to seize a Druze man's home, accusing him of being loyal to the Syrian regime, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.