Families of the Lebanese who were kidnapped by armed terrorist groups in Syria on Thursday staged a sit-in in front of the Qatari Embassy in Beirut in protest against Qatar's support to these groups in Syria and its abstention from contributing to release their kidnapped relatives.

The Lebanese national news agency said the families of the Abductees gathered outside the Embassy's building preventing the employees from getting in.

Security enhancements were made in front of the Embassy after a problem erupted between the Lebanese security forces and the relatives of the abductees, and traffic movement was shifted in another direction after blocking the road leading to the Embassy, the agency added.



The relatives of the kidnapped Lebanese stressed that they will continue their moves against the countries supporting the armed terrorist groups, including the embassies of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to demand that they play an efficient role in releasing their relatives.

While the sit-in continued with the participants holding banners which read 'Qatar Is the Biggest Supporter of Armed Opposition in Syria', a delegation of the families headed to the building of the Lebanese Interior Ministry upon the Minister's request.

Earlier, media sources reported that a group of the families of the kidnapped Lebanese broke into the Qatari Embassy's building and that a number of women were able to reach the second floor, a news that was later denied by the Abbas Zugheib, spokesman of the families.

Nine Lebanese out of 11 are still with the armed terrorist groups who kidnapped them last May in Azaz area in northern Aleppo after crossing the Turkish border on their way back from visiting holy places in Iran.