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Legal Experts Condemn Biden’s Comments on Nasrallah’s Assassination

CrossFireArabia
September 29, 2024

Legal experts slam US President Joe Biden for making a comment praising the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. Saturday.

The White House issued a statement praising Israel’s assassination of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, calling it “a measure of justice” for the victims of Hezbollah’s actions, including Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians according to the Quds News Network.

The assassination, carried out by Israeli airstrikes, has killed dozens of civilians in addition to Nasrallah and threatens a full-scale regional war.

The statement has sparked sharp criticism from legal experts who argue that the endorsement of extrajudicial killings undermines international law. legal scholars and human rights advocates have expressed concern over Biden’s framing of the operation, calling it a dangerous precedent that disregards the rule of law.

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Israeli Guns Displace 200,000 in Lebanon

CrossFireArabia
September 29, 2024

Over 200,000 were displaced inside Lebanon because of Israeli airstrikes, the UN high commissioner for refugees said on Saturday.

“More than 50,000 Lebanese and Syrians living in Lebanon have now crossed into Syria fleeing Israeli airstrikes,” Filippo Grandi wrote on X.

“Relief operations are underway, including by UNHCR, to help all those in need, in coordination with both governments,” he added.

Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the start of Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 41,600 victims, mostly women and children, following a cross-border attack by Hamas last Oct. 7 according to the Anadolu news agency.

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Beirut Under Israeli Attacks

CrossFireArabia
September 28, 2024

Israeli warplanes have launched what is described as massive airstrikes on Lebanon’s capital Beirut, Saturday night according to the Quds News Network.

Meanwhile the Israeli army on Saturday claimed killing Hezbollah’s top intelligence commander in an airstrike in the southern suburb of Beirut. In a statement, the army said its air force targeted Hassan Khalil Yassin, who was responsible for Hezbollah’s intelligence unit according to Anadolu.

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Oman Mufti on Nasrallah Assassination

CrossFireArabia
September 28, 2024

The Grand Mufti of Oman, Sheikh Ahmed al-Khalili:

“We are very saddened by the assassination of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, who has been a significant thorn in the side of the Zionist project for over three decades.

We ask God to strengthen the resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine, and all Muslim countries. We hope that Muslims will unite on common ground and put aside what divides them.”

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Nasrallah killed in ‘mad’ 85 Ton Bombs on Beirut

CrossFireArabia
September 28, 2024

Hassan Nasrallah and his colleagues were killed Friday evening, after 85 bunker-busting bombs, each weighing a ton of explosives, dropped on the southern districts of Beirut.

Hezbollah officials confirmed the killing of its Secretary-General in the raids that targeted the party’s central command headquarters.

A party statement said, “His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah, joined his great and immortal martyred comrades, whose path he led for nearly 30 years.”

To the @UN and the world: the new standards of warfare have changed forever! Now it is Totally OK to drop 85 bunker-busting bombs weighing a ton of explosives to assassinate one or dozen persons sacrificing 100s civilians at the same time!

Don't cry when the boomerang returns! pic.twitter.com/Q1eQhqdNja
— Mo – PeaceMaker 💪 (@FreeAfriq) September 28, 2024

His name and murder soon started to trend on the social media former Lebanese Prime Minister and leader of the “Future” Movement Saad Hariri saying the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is a cowardly act condemned in its entirety by us, and it has led Lebanon and the region into a new phase of violence.

In its statement Hezbollah honored Nasrallah as a brave, wise, and courageous martyr, recognizing his lifelong dedication to the resistance movement.

Over the past three decades Nasrallah’s leadership was unique represented by his role in Hezbollah’s victories, from the liberation of Lebanon in 2000 to the 2006 war with Israel with the party praizing his unwavering support for Palestine and Gaza.

He led the resistance since 1992 building on the legacy of Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi the previous secretary-general and who was also assassinated by Israel on 16 February of that year.