{"id":47204,"date":"2021-12-24T01:24:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T01:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47204"},"modified":"2021-12-24T01:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T01:24:23","slug":"arab-coalition-carry-out-air-strikes-on-houthi-weapons-storage-in-sanaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47204","title":{"rendered":"Arab coalition carry out air strikes on Houthi weapons storage in Sanaa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBEIRUT: Beirut residents who suffered damages after deadly Hezbollah clashes have filed a criminal case on Thursday against the Iran-backed group\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n

\nLawyers filed the complaint before the Appeal Public Prosecution office in Mount Lebanon against Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and \u201ceveryone who appears in the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThis legal intervention follows Hezbollah also taking a hardline stance against the judge investigating the August 2020 Beirut blast, causing a row that has left Prime Minister Najib Mikati\u2019s Cabinet unable to meet since Oct. 12, even as crises mount and poverty and hunger worsen.<\/p>\n

\nThe lawyers filed the complaint on behalf of the residents of the Ain El-Remmaneh area.<\/p>\n

\nThe residents were affected by the Tayyouneh incidents on Oct. 14 as a result of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement\u2019s supporters entering the area and attacking properties.<\/p>\n

\nViolent clashes broke out as Hezbollah and its Amal movement staged protests, calling for the removal of Judge Tarek Bitar, who is leading the blast probe.<\/p>\n

\nThe Oct. 14 protest turned Beirut into a war zone, with live-fire exchanges between rival parties leaving seven dead.<\/p>\n

\nThursday\u2019s criminal complaint coincides with a rift between the Free Patriotic Movement and virtually its sole ally in power, Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

\nThe rift follows the Constitutional Council\u2019s decision to turn down the appeal presented by the FPM over the changes to the electoral law added by the parliament.<\/p>\n

\nLebanese President Michel Aoun and his political team, represented by the FPM, believe that these changes are not in their interest.<\/p>\n

\nFPM leader Gebran Bassil \u2014 in coordination with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri \u2014 showed his displeasure with Hezbollah during a press conference on Tuesday where he held the group responsible for what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nFPM supporters also took to social media platforms to share their anger and displeasure with the group.<\/p>\n

\nThis rift between the two allies is the first of its kind since the Mar Mikhael agreement of February 2006.<\/p>\n

\nDespite the differences between the FPM and Hezbollah for more than 15 years, their relationship was never deeply shaken.<\/p>\n

\nThe FPM \u201cis facing an electoral crisis,\u201d said political observers.<\/p>\n

\nThey voiced doubts about the possibility of the FPM winning 12 deputies at the next elections, noting that it has the largest bloc in the parliament.<\/p>\n

\nThey added: \u201cEven analyses indicate that Bassil\u2019s parliamentary seat is under threat, as there are 27,000 votes in the third electoral district where he will run and most will vote against him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nIt is uncertain whether Hezbollah and the FPM will meet soon in light of Bassil\u2019s fierce criticism.<\/p>\n

\nBassil, among 10 FPM deputies, requested to schedule a parliamentary accountability session for the government.<\/p>\n

\nThe Cabinet has been paralyzed since mid-October as a result of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement deciding that their ministers would boycott sessions until two demands are met.<\/p>\n

\nThey are demanding Judge Bitar\u2019s removal from the port explosion probe and for the arrest of everyone involved in the shooting of their supporters Ain El-Remmaneh during the Tayouneh incident.<\/p>\n

\nJudge Naji Eid, head of the First Chamber of the Civil Court of Cassation, accepted on Thursday the response request submitted by the representatives of former ministers Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zeaiter against Bitar, in regard to the port explosion probe.<\/p>\n

\nBitar was informed about this response, which is the seventh proposal for his dismissal from the investigation.<\/p>\n

\nIn relation to Hezbollah not responding to Bassil\u2019s criticism, the party responded to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres\u2019s positions less than 12 hours after he left Lebanon, emphasizing the need to implement the Security Council resolution 1701, which was written with the intent of ending the 2006 war.<\/p>\n

\nMeanwhile, a number of young men in Shaqra, in the Beqaa Valley south of the Litani river, intercepted a UN Interim Force patrol, breaking car windows and attacking the troops, under the pretext of them entering the town without the Lebanese army and filming neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

\nHezbollah often conducts similar violent protests under the pretense that its members are acting as concerned citizens.<\/p>\n

\nThe Lebanese army arrived on the scene and protected the international soldiers and their vehicles.<\/p>\n

\nUNIFIL put the Lebanese authorities in charge of this \u201cdangerous incident,\u201d asking them to investigate and bring the offenders to justice.<\/p>\n

\nA statement from Candice Ardel, the deputy director of UNIFIL Media Office, referred to the emphasis of Guterres \u2014 \u00a0when he visited the blue line in the south of Lebanon \u2014 on the need for UNIFIL\u2019s operations to have full access \u2014 without any obstacles \u2014 to all the areas in accordance with UN Security Council resolution 1701.<\/p>\n

\nAt the conclusion of his visit to Lebanon, Guterres emphasized during a press conference on Wednesday that \u201cthe Lebanese leaders do not have the right to punish the people by continuing to disagree.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nHe also stressed \u201cthe need for Hezbollah to become a political party like the rest of the political powers in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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