Nasrallah to Tackle Security Deployment in Dahieh in Televised Speech
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will make a televised speech on Monday to tackle the latest developments in Lebanon and the region.
Nasrallah's speech comes in light of security deployment in the party's stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
A joint force of 800 men composed of soldiers from the army and security services will begin their deployment on Monday in Dahieh, where they will take over security at checkpoints set up by Hizbullah in the wake of two bombings that hit its stronghold.
Informed sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper that the area is under the state's authority.
“The measures undertaken by Hizbullah in Dahieh was forced by the situation in an attempt to safeguard the residents of the area,” the sources said.
Hizbullah had set up its own security checkpoints in Beirut's southern suburbs after the bombings which wounded more than 50 people on July 9 and killed 27 and injured around 300 on August 15.
The Lebanese army is also present in the area and has a barracks in the Bir al-Abed neighborhood.
Hizbullah has found itself targeted in Lebanon over its involvement in Syria, where it has dispatched fighters to battle alongside President Bashar Assad's forces against rebels determined to topple him.
MP Mohammed Raad, head of the Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, stressed Sunday that Hizbullah “is the first party to welcome the decision of the state security agencies to assume their security missions in Beirut's southern suburbs.”
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