PM Salam meets Hezbollah's Khalil who urges govt. to rebuild war-hit houses
The relation between Hezbollah and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is not at its best, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper said Friday.
The daily reported that despite the disagreements, ties are not severed and communication and coordination between the two sides are ongoing.
According to al-Akhbar, Salam met last week with Political Advisor to Hezbollah's Secretary General, Hussein al-Khalil, who stressed that the reconstruction of war-hit Lebanon and rebuilding the destroyed homes and villages should be the government's priority.
The World Bank has granted Lebanon a $250 million loan that will be used to help ease electricity cuts worsened by last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah. The 14-month war that ended in late November also badly damaged other infrastructure in parts of Lebanon. The country was already facing major electricity problems, especially following an economic meltdown that began in late 2019.
The fighting also destroyed vast swathes of Hezbollah's strongholds in the country's south and east, as well as Beirut's southern suburbs. Tens of thousands of houses were reduced to rubble in Israeli airstrikes.
The World Bank estimated Lebanon's recovery and reconstruction costs at $11 billion.
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