Families of the victims of the recent blast in Lebanese capital Beirut blame Israel for loss of their beloveds, as the regime continues provocative moves along Lebanon and Syria borders.
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah warned Friday that his party was ready to step up its military involvement in response to attacks by foreign backed terrorist groups targeting the group and its strongholds in Lebanon.
The death toll from Thursday’s car bombing in the southern Beirut stronghold of Hezbollah rose Friday to 24, said Ali Ammar, an MP for the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
Lebanese President Michel Sleiman says Thursday’s deadly bombing in the southern suburb of Beirut bears the fingerprints of the Israeli regime.
At least 10 people have been killed and 212 injured after a powerful explosion hit a southern area of Lebanese capital Beirut, al-Alam reports.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the resistance group fighters were behind last week’s attack against Israeli forces who violated Lebanese sovereignty.
Turkey says the abduction of two of its nationals in Lebanon last week could hamper ties between Ankara and Beirut, urging Lebanese authorities to work on winning the release of the two captives.
Lebanon’s Mufti Mohammad Rashid Qabbani has called for the freedom of kidnapped Turkish pilots and Lebanese hostages held in Syria since May 2012.
The blast of a cluster bomb left from Israel’s 33-day war on Lebanon has killed an 18-year-old boy in Hasbaya district in the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon.