Bassil says can't stand idly by as Israel strikes Beirut, kills children
Free Patriotic movement chief Jebran Bassil said the FPM cannot stand idly by as Israel strikes Beirut and kills children.
Bassil's comment, late Thursday, came two days after an Israeli air strike killed a Hezbollah top commander in Haret Hreik. The raid on the Beirut suburb, an overcrowded residential area, killed siblings Amira and Hassan Fadlallah as well as three women and injured dozens of civilians.
Bassil criticized the "selective sovereignty" of some parties, in an apparent reference to the Lebanese Forces.
"We can't be human and not feel sad when we see Lebanese and Palestinian children dying in a brutal and inhumane way in Beirut and Gaza," Bassil said.
"We cannot call ourselves sovereign if we see our homeland threatened by an enemy warning to send us back to the Stone Age and we do not condemn it," he added. "We cannot be neutral, we cannot reject war if Israel started it."
Source: Naharnet
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