We Won’t Be Dragged In A New Civil War

BEIRUT – Hezbollah says they will not be dragged into a new civil war. The statement came Friday, a day after seven Shiites were killed in Beirut’s bloodiest street violence in more than a decade.

Senior Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieldin repeated Hezbollah’s accusations that the Lebanese Christian Forces Party had opened fire in the planned ambush. The group had a powerful militia in the 1975-1990 civil war.

There was no immediate comment from the Lebanese Christian Forces Party which denied similar allegations yesterday.

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“We will not be dragged into a civil war but at the same time we will not let the blood of our martyrs be wasted,” Safieldin said during a speech at the funeral of the Hezbollah member who died in the shooting.

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Safieldin accused the Lebanese Christian Forces of receiving orders from the United States that listed Hezbollah as a terrorist group, and that it was financed by “several Arab countries”, which clearly pointed to Saudi Arabia.

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The shooting began as people gathered for the protests Hezbollah called against the chief investigator in the Beirut port explosion.

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