The day after the killing of 12 people, including eight members of the Hezbollah group, as a result of Israeli raids on various sites in eastern and southern Lebanon, the Vice President of the Political Council of Hezbollah, Mahmoud Qamati, said in a speech broadcast on Saturday by Al-Manar TV during a gathering in Beirut: “We no longer have a choice but to resist.”
Published on: 02/21/2026 - 16:19 Last updated: 02/21/2026 - 19:01
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The Deputy Chairman of Hezbollah's Political Council, Mahmoud Qamati, said on Saturday in a speech broadcast by Al-Manar TV during a gathering in Beirut that what happened on Friday in the Bekaa (eastern Lebanon) was a "massacre," in reference to the killing of eight party members in Israeli raids.
Qamati said: “What happened yesterday in the Bekaa is a new massacre and a new aggression, exceeding the entire pace of the aggression against Lebanon... What choice do we have left to defend ourselves... and our homeland? What choice do we have but to resist? We no longer have a choice.”
Read alsoLebanon: “The truce is a story” The residents of the south live under the influence of almost daily Israeli strikes. The Lebanese President condemned these raids, which come days after the Lebanese government announced that the Lebanese army will need four months to implement the second phase of the plan to disarm Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah mourned the eight members in posts on its official Telegram channels. In the city of Baalbek, the party held a funeral for the leader Hussein Yaghi and another member, in which hundreds of his supporters participated, raising their flags and chanting slogans in support of him, according to scenes broadcast by Al-Manar TV.
Although a ceasefire has been in effect since November 2024 that ended a war that lasted for more than a year between Hezbollah and Israel, the latter continues to launch strikes, especially on southern Lebanon, which it says are aimed at preventing the party from restoring its military capabilities.
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