Hezbollah’s handling of the munitions-loaded truck’s skidding in the town of Kahaleh was the subject of a blaming assessment from its allies.
A leader in the “National Movement” believed that Aoun drew the political ceiling in dealing with the truck’s slipping, and told Asharq Al-Awsat that other reactions, regardless of their owners, belonging to the “National Movement” are not binding, and that their issuance lies in understanding the situation. The crisis that cast a shadow over the town of Kahala on the one hand, and blocked his opponents in the Christian street in their attempts to outbid him.
The leader himself admitted that the reactions disturbed Bassil in his new dialogue with Hezbollah, but he will continue, “We are awaiting Hezbollah’s response to the political paper that he deposited with the party’s coordination and liaison officer, Wafiq Safa,” and the “movement” does not support attempts to place blame. The army commander, General Joseph Aoun, under the pretext of the delay in the military units taking control of the crisis situation, and says that efforts must be directed to quelling sectarian strife. And he asks: What was the army supposed to do other than the efforts it made and prevented the people from placing their hands on the ammunition the truck was carrying, which pushes Hezbollah to take a reaction that raises the level of crisis and makes it difficult to control it?
In this context, I learnedThe Middle EastAccording to parliamentary sources, the former head of the “Progressive Socialist” party, Walid Jumblatt, who is currently outside Lebanon, played a role that contributed to calming the situation, and was in contact with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, the army and “Hezbollah” leaderships, and his son, the head of the “Progressive” Timur Jumblatt. Proceeding from the fact that the truck slipped in a sensitive area that constitutes the crossing point to the Bekaa and Syria and is located on the outskirts of the town of Aley and its villages, and that there is no interest in turning it into contact lines that threaten the civil peace that the country still enjoys despite its economic and social crises that have no solutions until now. .
The parliamentary sources revealed that the army’s delay in controlling the situation and seizing it was not intended, but rather it must be prepared for it politically and on the ground. One of its results was the evacuation of the Kahalah elbow from the partisan group affiliated with “Hezbollah” and the escort of the truck, so that the military units could provide the required protection to extract The truck and unloaded its cargo, and said that the contact of the military units with the gathered residents of the town was only aimed at preventing the possession of the ammunition they were carrying.
And she emphasized that Jumblatt, who took the initiative to act immediately after the truck slipped and before the news of the two deaths spread, remained in contact with the deputies members of the “Democratic Gathering” who showed understanding and responsiveness to his point of view, and this explains their lack of involvement in fueling the political conflict by entering a party to the exchange of campaigns. She said that Jumblatt the father was not biased towards this or that side, as much as he had decided from the first moment that he was biased in the interest of calm and not exposing civil peace to a setback that no one can predict to where it might extend.
2023-08-12 05:03:00
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