Supporters of Hezbollah attend a funeral of people who were killed in Lebanon on 17 October 2021 during violence in Beirut in southern suburbs of Beirut. RESTERS Mohamed Azakir File Photo Photo:
BEIRUT, Oct. 18 — Reuters - Lebanon's Hezbollah group has 100,000 trained fighters and the group has never been stronger, its chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said in a televised address on Monday, days after Beirut witnessed the worst street violence in over a decade.
Seven people were killed on Thursday when a gun battle broke out as protesters of the Shi'ite Hezbollah and Amal groups were on their way to demonstrate against the lead investigator of the Beirut port explosion.
Samir Geagea has accused the Christian Lebanese Forces Party LF of being responsible for Thursday's violence, accusation which its head, Hezbollah, denied.
I advise the Lebanese forces and their heads to give up on this idea of civil war and internal strife entirely, Nasrallah said. Your calculations are wrong the region has never seen a Hezbollah as strong as now.