Zionist Attack on Beirut Draws Condemnation, Resistance Says to Retaliate

Date: 31 July 2024 - 22:13

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BEIRUT (Dispatches) – Lebanon said Wednesday it will lodge a complaint against the Zionist regime at the UN Security Council following an airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburb, which killed at least four people and injured 80 others.
The occupying regime’s army said it targeted Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukr.
Hezbollah confirmed that Shukr was inside the building hit by the regime.
“Lebanon does not want a war and our efforts are focused on diplomacy,” Information Minister Ziad Makary told a press conference following a Cabinet meeting.
“The government plan is ready in case of a large-scale displacement in Lebanon,” he added.
Tuesday’s airstrike was the second Israeli attack on the southern suburb of Beirut since Jan. 2, when the regime assassinated Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri.
Fears have grown about a full-blown war between the occupying regime and Hezbollah amid an exchange of cross-border attacks between the two sides.
Islamic resistance movements condemned the regime’s bombing of a southern suburb in Lebanon’s capital.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) reported the attack was conducted by a drone that fired three missiles. It said the strike had targeted the area around Hezbollah’s Shoura Council in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas also strongly condemned “the brutal Zionist aggression on Lebanon and the brotherly Lebanese people, which targeted a building for the Hezbollah in Beirut’s southern suburb and resulted in the martyrdom and injury of a number of innocent citizens.”
Hamas called it “a dangerous escalation for which the Nazi-Zionist occupation bears full responsibility.”
“We declare our full solidarity with brotherly Lebanon and our brothers in Hezbollah, and we affirm that the arrogance of the occupation and its attempt to restore its lost prestige and deterrence by committing more crimes in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, and the Middle East will be nothing but an uncalculated adventure, for which the occupation will pay a heavy price,” said the Hamas statement.
Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine also condemned “the treacherous Zionist aggression against Lebanon, its land and its people, and we see in it the persistence of the Nazi regime in the entity to ignite the entire region and prepare to commit new massacres against the peoples of our nation.”
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement denounced the Israeli aggression.
“We condemn and denounce in the strongest terms the Zionist aggression on the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.”
The resistance group said the attack was “in violation of all international conventions and flagrant breach of Lebanon’s sovereignty and international humanitarian law.”
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said in a statement that Israel “has committed a new war crime that represents the true face of this entity, which systematically targets civilians. The Front calls for rallying around the resistance, as it is the only way to deter this criminal enemy.”