Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday said he rejects the spread of the Gaza war to south Lebanon, calling for a halt to the cross-border clashes and for "the protection of the Lebanese and their homes and properties.""We demand the removal of any rocket launchpad planted between homes in the towns of the South that might draw a destructive Israeli response," al-Rahi urged in his Sunday Mass sermon."Let everyone respect (U.N.) Security Council Resolution 1701 and all its articles for the sake of Lebanon's welfare," the patriarch added.
For him to say this out loud, that means every Lebanese citizen knows that Hezbollah is placing its rocket arsenal in the middle of the civilian population, just like Hamas does in Gaza.
A comment on the story is interesting:
This is exactly what happened in the sunni-village Chebaa on October 14th. An elderly couple was killed after Hezbollah-members had fired against an Israeli position from near their home. They were spotted by Israeli drones and were fired upon immediately. The Hezbollah-members sought cover in a random house and the Israelis fired a direct hit at the house. Paramedics tried to reach the house after the bombardment ended, but other Hezbollah-members had cordoned off the area until they could remove the bodies of their soldiers and their equipment. When the paramedics finally were allowed to enter they found the dead bodies of the couple embracing each other in a corner of the kitchen.
I couldn't verify all the details, but the details I could verify all jive with this. A couple was killed and Israel said that it hit the source of the rocket fire. One Hezbollah member did get killed that day in the Shebaa Farms area and the group did not admit the circumstances of his death.
And Hezbollah's cynical use of civilians as defensive weapons gets exactly as little condemnation as Hamas does.
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