Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Monday that his country's forces would respond to incoming fire from neighbouring Syria that authorities said had killed a child. "What is happening on the eastern and northeastern borders cannot continue," Aoun said in a post on X. "I have directed the Lebanese army to respond to the source of the fire."
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