Tensions are high in Lebanon on Wednesday, a day after the Israeli occupation assassinated senior Hamas Leader Saleh Al-Arouri in Beirut’s southern suburb, Dahiyeh. Meanwhile, eyes are on Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s speech on Wednesday night.
The Hezbollah leader is to deliver a televised speech at 18:00 on Wednesday, on the fourth martyrdom anniversary of Hajj Qassem Suleimani and Hajj Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, senior anti-terror commanders from Iran and Iraq who was martyred in a US strike on Baghdad on January 2020.
Pro-resistance crowds are awaiting the speech of Sayyed Nasrallah, a day after the Israeli drone strike that targeted Al-Arouri in the first Israeli attack on Dahiyeh since the start of the nearly three-month Israeli war on Gaza.
The deputy chairman of Hamas’ politburo was martyred in a drone strike in Beirut’s Dahiyeh, along with six others.
In a statement published shortly after the assassination took place on Tuesday, Hezbollah vowed that the Israeli “heinous crime” would not go unpunished.
Al-Manar reporter Hussein Awwad said on Wednesday that the traffic movement returned to normal in the area of the strike on Sayyed Hadi Nasrallah Boulevard in Dahiyeh, as the security forces lifted the security cordon imposed on the scene of the aggression.
Earlier on Wednesday, Major General Mohammad Khair, the Secretary-General of the Higher Relief Commission visited the scene of the attack, as he stressed importance of carrying out swift probe into the aggression.
“What we have seen today requires a probe by several Lebanese bodies,” Khair was quoted as saying by local media.
The tweet below on X platform shows the damage at the area of the strike.
آثار العدوان الغاشم الذي استهدف الضاحية الجنوبية لبيروت pic.twitter.com/mTeolwDMIV
— ناهية (@nahia_abuhamdan) January 3, 2024
