"Alternate Ministers failed to lure the commander of the army to their court".

A senior ministerial official revealed through an article by journalist Mohammad Shqair in the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the use of a political solution to absorb the repercussions of the incident in the mountains, which manifested itself in the meeting of reconciliation and frankness sponsored by President Michel Aoun, had pushed to block some ministers. Members of the "strong bloc of Lebanon" led by Foreign Minister Gebran Bbadil, who insisted on adopting a security solution to deal with its repercussions, said the discrepancy was evident at the meeting. Presidency presided over by President Aoun before the Supreme Council of Defense just after the incident.

The prime minister stressed that the prime minister was in the vanguard to demand that the political solution outweigh the security solutions. The army commander, General Joseph Aoun, said: Was not far from his point of view, in exchange for the request of more than one minister to give priority to the security solution.

He pointed out that those who called for the adoption of a security solution avoided to mention this solution clearly, but focused on its content on the pretext that it was necessary to conduct patrols of the security system. army in a number of towns in Chouf and Aley districts and set up barriers to search for those involved in the incident and prosecute them to stop them.

The minister's source stated that General Aoun considered that such measures were not necessary and that army units were deployed in the districts of Shouf and Aley and that it was necessary to seek a political solution.

He felt that some ministers had failed to attract the army commander to his political stage, especially since the army was tasked with maintaining stability and calm and was a translation of political congestion that would not be resolved by security measures without being supported by other political measures.