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Monday, August 12, 2024
Billboard campaign in Lebanon calls on Hezbollah to end campaign against Israel
Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
Billboards crop up across Lebanon to demand an end to Hezbollah’s military campaign against Israel. The posters, which read “Enough, we are fed up” and “We don’t want war” have appeared in regions dominated by opposition parties and in some parts of Beirut, the Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat reports.
No specific party or civil society organization has claimed responsibility for the campaign, but an unnamed leading member of the Lebanese opposition tells the Saudi paper that the billboards reflect the position of the “vast majority of the people, regardless of their sect and affiliations,” and that those who have died in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon “are sacrificed at the altar of the Iranian agenda, not the liberation of Jerusalem or defense of Palestine.”
Even the Shiite community in southern Lebanon, “which used to forgive all of Hezbollah’s mistakes,” is now showing signs of discontent after the terror group’s actions have led to their displacement and the destruction of their homes, the opposition figure says.
شعارات «بيكفّي – تعبنا» و«ما بدنا حرب» تنتشر في لبنان… ولا أحد يتبنّاها —- #لبنان_لا_يريد_الحرب https://t.co/EiPXuR7FdT
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