It occurred in the context of the assassination of one of the leaders of Hamas in Beirutallied group of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah chief says he won’t stay silent after Hamas leader’s assassination
The head of Hezbollahthe powerful Lebanese armed group, spoke out on Wednesday by making it clear that it will not remain silent after the death of one of the leaders of Hamas in Beirut, whose Palestinian group is an ally of the Lebanese. He considered it a “serious and dangerous crime in the face of which we cannot remain silent.”
Through a televised speech, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah offered his condolences to Hamas, describing what happened on the Tuesday night in which he died Saleh al-Arouriof ”flagrant Israeli aggression”.
The attack hit the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, in what analysts say could also be a message from Israel to Hezbollah that even their main stronghold there can be reached.
Hezbollahfounded by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in 1982, is the spearhead of an alliance backed by Tehran and hostile to Israel and USA. In 2006 he waged a month-long war against the Jewish state.
Background to attacks in Beirut
It was the first attack against Beirut after almost three months of almost daily fire between the Israeli army and Hezbollahwhich has been limited to the border region.
Hezbollah launched rockets across the border on October 8 in support of Hamas, which the previous day had carried out a deadly attack on southern Israel that sparked a fierce Israeli bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip.
Nasrallah stated that the “swift” action of Hezbollah on October 8 and cross-border bombing since then had prevented a broader Israeli bombing campaign on Lebanon. He promised that there would be “no limits” and “no rules” to his group’s fighting if Israel decided to launch a war against Lebanon.
Source: Ambito
