5 Palestinians Killed in Lebanon Blast Blamed on Zionist Regime

Date: 31 May 2023 - 23:06

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BEIRUT (Dispatches) – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) has blamed the Zionist regime for the killing of five of its members in a blast in eastern Lebanon, near the Syrian border.
Anwar Raja, a PFLP-GC official, said a Zionist strike on Wednesday hit positions in the Lebanese town of Qusaya. He said 10 people were wounded, of which two were in critical condition.
However, unnamed sources with the Zionist regime told news agencies that the regime was not involved in the attack.
“An old rocket exploded in an arms depot on the base and five fighters were killed,” a Lebanese security source told AFP.
Back in August 2019, suspected strikes by the Zionist regime targeted the PFLP-GC in Qusaya.
In July 2015, a security official also reported a blast at the PFLP-GC base in Qusaya, saying seven people were wounded, while the Palestinian group blamed it on an Israeli strike.
The PFLP-GC was founded in 1968 after splitting from the similarly named Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
It has close ties to Lebanon’s Hezbollah group as well as the Syrian government, and has bases in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley as well as in al-Naameh, just south of Beirut.
Its founder, Ahmed Jibril, was based in Damascus until he died in 2021.