Quds Day Rally Canceled, Nasrallah to Make Televised Address

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Hizbullah has decided to call off a Dahieh mass rally scheduled for Friday over security concerns, the party said in a statement on Thursday.

“In light of the security situations, it has been decided to cancel the Quds Day mass rally that was supposed to be held tomorrow, Friday at the Sayyed al-Shohada Complex in Rweiss,” Hizbullah said.

“Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will instead deliver a televised speech at 5:30 pm,” it added.

This is the second major event that the party calls off this week over security reasons.

On Tuesday, Hizbullah canceled religious ceremonies marking the Laylat al-Qadr holy night of Ramadan that were supposed to be held at Shiite shrines and mosques in the northern Bekaa region, a day after eight suicide bombers attacked the nearby Christian border town of al-Qaa where they killed five people and wounded 28 others.

The country has been on high alert since the unprecedented bombings and the army confirmed earlier on Thursday that it had recently arrested an Islamic State group cell that was plotting to attack “an important touristic facility and a crowded area."

Media outlets are also buzzing with news about possible terrorist attacks in the country, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, and Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq announced Wednesday that seven terrorist cells had been busted in the past two months.

Comments 5
Thumb shn-virgo 30 June 2016, 19:53

You don't know what you're talking about terrorist. It is simply taking us a little longer than expected to translate the speech I must read from the original Persian to Arabic. We lost so many translators in Syria we have to use an old edition of BabelFish.

Thumb shab 30 June 2016, 22:25

loool

Thumb ice-man 30 June 2016, 20:01

How Sad.... Quds Day Rally is my favorite show of the year.

Thumb liberty 01 July 2016, 05:43

yeah ice-man it's like July 4th;)

Thumb shab 30 June 2016, 22:25

Filthy murdering militia leader still in hiding