Geagea says Israeli airstrikes on Dahieh a 'major scandal'

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that the latest Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs were a “major scandal,” seeing as “eight months after the signing of the ceasefire agreement in November 2024, Beirut is being bombed again.”

“They are telling us that that happened because Israel is barbarous … We know that, but what have you done to prevent that?” Geagea wondered, stressing that “the solution comes through the clear regional equation and the clear international equation.”

“We need someone to endorse these equations so that we manage to solve our problems,” the LF leader added, emphasizing that “it it unacceptable for the Lebanese citizen to remain in danger of being bombed or killed in any given moment, whereas there is a solution.”

He added that the solution takes places when Hezbollah and its allies allow the Lebanese state to become an “actual state,” lamenting that state officials are also being lenient with Hezbollah regarding its weapons.

“Today Lebanon has a chance and I don’t know if this chance will still be there two months from now. We have major friends in this world, starting by the Gulf countries, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States. They can help us stop the Israeli attacks and they can help us remove the Israelis from Lebanon, but on the condition that we become an actual state,” Geagea said.

He also noted that “verbal attacks” on Israel cannot resolve Lebanon’s problems.