The Arab world reacted today (Friday) to the assassination of Ibrahim Akil, who was the head of Hezbollah’s operations department, and the right-hand man of the terrorist organization’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah.
Officially eliminated, Akil, photo: no credit
The Saudi commentator Abdullah al-Hatila wrote: “Israel insulted Iran and its arms in the region with high-quality blows that killed and wreaked havoc. The response of Iran and its arms is limited to murdering chickens and burning weeds.”
The scene of the attack in Dahaiah in Beirut, photo: Reuters
A Lebanese journalist writes that Israel’s goal is to force Hezbollah to respond so that this will be a pretext for a major Israeli operation against Lebanon. The Prime Minister of the Transitional Government in Lebanon, Najib Mikati, responded to the assassination and the beeper attack this week, saying that it was an “unprecedented security earthquake, which caused thousands of victims, including the wounded and dead. This is a shameful crime, which is similar to genocide and massacre. We are raising this issue before the community the international community and the human conscience – as guilt towards the Israeli enemy.”
The prime minister of the transitional government in Lebanon, photo: AFP
The Iranian embassy in Beirut said in the full statement that the country “condemns the Israeli madness that crossed all borders in an attack on residential areas in the southern district of Beirut. We condemn these crimes that will not harm the determination of the Lebanese.”
Smoke in the sky of Beirut, photo: AFP
The Jordanian journalist May Abdullah reported that “Israel attacked two buildings in southern Dahiya in a populated area and at rush hour. The Lebanese Ministry of Health called on residents to donate blood.”
The Syrian Foreign Ministry accused in response: “The Zionist entity commits crimes in several parts of the region, the latest of which was in the southern suburb of Beirut, and demonstrates its cruelty and distance from humanity and international legitimacy, as these crimes are considered war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The Palestinian terrorist organizations, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, also published messages of condemnation against Israel.
The residential building that was attacked in Lebanon, photo: AP
The Palestinian network activist, Adham Abu Salmiya, who supports Hamas, wrote that Israel “is trying to break the equation of Hezbollah’s exhaustion that it started on the northern front, and to try to convince the Hezbollah leadership to separate their front from the Gaza front.”
Supporters of the leader of the Houthis, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi (archive), photo: AFP
The Political Bureau of the Houthis: “We strongly condemn the dangerous escalation of the enemy that crosses all the red lines in an attack in the southern Dahya of Beirut. We emphasize once again that these crimes will not weaken the determination of the Lebanese people and their resistance.”
A Hezbollah operative at the funeral of one of the organization’s terrorists after the beeper attack, photo: AFP
Al-Jazeera wrote: “Israel’s actions against Hezbollah go beyond harming its commanders; they break the trust between the group and the surrounding community, which has always believed that they were protected by a highly professional military and security apparatus.”
Syrian journalist Nour Golan: “In summary – the role of the Hezbollah militia ended after it participated with all its abilities with its colleagues in the destruction of countries and economies and armies and societies of the region. Its presence is no longer necessary for the next phase.”
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