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#Hezbollah member Ali Chebli was killed during a wedding in Jiyeh, south of Beirut, on Saturday evening, with initial reports indicating that the assassination was carried out as revenge for a murder which took place last year.
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Initial reports linked the murder to violent clashes between Sunni and Shi'ite residents of the town of Khaldeh, #Lebanon last year in which Hassan Zaher Ghosn, a teenage Sunni Arab, was killed.
The #Hamas-affiliated Al-Akhbar newspaper has gone as far as to blame the US, Saudi Arabia and the UAE for "manufacturing" the violence in #Khaldeh in order to bring down #Hezbollah, saying "no investigation is needed" to find the evidence.
On these days in 1982, the 1st face-to-face confrontation between #Israel special Forces and the first fighters who declared the birth of #Hezbollah 3 years later took place in #Khaldeh at the gate of #Beirut. The children of Sayyed Mussa al-Sadr were present+
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Although Imad Mughnniyeh was with PLO as a front (PLO had plenty of weapons), he has already engaged w/ Islamic movements. It was also the 1st time Imad, aka haj Ridwan, confront #Israel troops face-2-face. Israeli did not know who they were fighting.
I met Yasser Araft at the Arab University area, that was PLO HQ. He told me how surprised he was to see these young men managing to stop #Israel advance when all Palestinian groups failed to confront Israel which, in 1 week, crossed the entire south to #Beirut
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