Palestinian resistance groups denounced the Israeli aggression on Beirut’s southern suburb (Dahiyeh) on Friday, voicing full support to Hezbollah Lebanese resistance movement.
Hamas condemned the Israeli attack as brutal and terrorist aggression which targeted a densely populated residential area, leading to casualties including children and civilians.
“The Israeli aggression is a new crime in a series of ongoing Zionist crimes, a violation of Lebanese sovereignty, and an escalation of the Zionist aggression,” the Palestinian resistance group said in a statement.
Hamas said the Israeli occupation government “escalates its aggression, intensifying its raids on residential areas, or blowing up civilian communications facilities with the aim of causing the largest number of victims, without differentiating between military and civilian in Lebanon.” The attacks in Lebanon and the genocide in Gaza as well as the aggression in the west Bank, “is a blatant violation of all humanitarian rules and norms, international laws and agreements,” the group said, stressing that such war crimes “require urgent action by the international community to stop them and hold their perpetrators accountable.” “We support our brothers in Hezbollah as we affirm our full solidarity with them and laud their courageous stances and their insistence to adhere to national, religious and humanitarian values by continuing the battle to support our people in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas added.
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine “condemned in the strongest terms the treacherous aggression launched by the Zionist enemy this afternoon on the southern suburb of Beirut (Dahiyeh), targeting residential areas, which resulted in a number of martyrs including civilians.” “The government of the Zionist enemy is going ahead with its crimes against the brotherly Lebanese people, with the aim of dragging Lebanon into an all-out war, or imposing humiliating conditions on it, on top of which is stopping the support front that Hezbollah is leading in defense of the Palestinian people.” “As we highly appreciate the great sacrifices made by Hezbollah and the Lebanese people in confronting the Zionist enemy, we ask God Almighty to bestow mercy upon the souls of the martyrs, and to grant the wounded a speedy and complete recovery,” the Islamic Jihad added.Israel dropped bombs on a crowded neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs, pulverizing an entire residential building, right as children were walking home from schools.
There is no word for this but terrorism.
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For its part, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine stressed that targeting populated areas in Dahiyeh “is a new crime to be added to the record of crimes of the terrorist Israeli army and this criminal fascist government.” The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine also denounced the aggression on Dahiyeh, warning that: “It is no longer a secret that the goal of the Israeli escalation against Lebanon is to drag the region into a large-scale war… in a bid to implement the US-Israeli colonial terrorist project.”