Maronite

Gebran Bassil, the leader of Lebanon's biggest Maronite Christian bloc, called him the "face of reform".

Former Lebanese army chief Aoun's candidacy for the presidency - a role reserved for a Maronite Christian - was backed by many key political parties in parliament as well as the United States, France and Saudi Arabia.

The displacement, in which some Lebanese have had to seek new shelter multiple times, said Gebran Bassil, who leads the Free Patriotic Movement, a Maronite Christian party allied with Hezbollah, evokes the mass evacuations seen in Gaza.

Aitou, a Maronite Christian community located in the mountains near the north-western coastal city of Tripoli, was not a place which would have expected to be attacked.

As it stands, it was just in time, said Father George Al-Amil, a Maronite priest in Ain Ebel.