Gemayel condemns Israel, criticizes Hezbollah over Nabatiyeh massacre
Kataeb Party leader MP Sami Gemayel on Thursday stressed that “all the Israeli excuses for targeting civilians are rejected and condemned,” hours after ten Lebanese civilians were killed in Israeli airstrikes across south Lebanon.
“The bill for the theories of ‘supporting Gaza’ and ‘distracting Israel’ should not be paid by innocent Lebanese,” Gemayel said in a post on the X platform, apparently hitting out at Hezbollah’s arguments for its involvement in the ongoing conflict.
“The residents of the South are daily paying from their blood, souls and properties the price of a war imposed on them by Hezbollah following a unilateral decision,” Gemayel added.
“Yesterday it was the turn of Nabatiyeh, where children and mothers fell as martyrs, and we offer warm condolences to their families,” he said.
The raid late Wednesday in Nabatiyeh resulted in the highest civilian death toll in a single strike in Lebanon since cross-border hostilities began in October, raising fears of a broader conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
The cross-border violence has killed at least 254 people on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 38 civilians.
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Gemayel told reporters as he was shaving this morning, who may not have been there at the time, "Racism is the foundation of civilization, whether it is Article 24 of the Lebanese Constitution which gives us followers of Jesus Christ half the seats in the parliament or Israel's Zionism, which gives someone whom someone else identifies as Jewish the right to shoot people on the street."
