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Source: https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/lebanon-hezbollah-israel-war-beirut-nv57gbmtg
Israel Strikes Hizbullah Stronghold in Beirut's Southern Suburbs
(Sunday Times-UK) Tom Kington - In the largely deserted streets of Beirut's once-teeming southern suburbs, a few locals were hauling suitcases from their homes between the bombings, which continued on Saturday night. During a tour of the area, The Times saw countless buildings reduced to piles of rubble, while others spilt their contents onto the streets after ordnance ripped their sides off. Near the smoldering remains of a branch of a Hizbullah bank, party officials set up a makeshift office with plastic chairs. Ghassan Hasbani, a Christian MP for the Lebanese Forces party, said he was fed up with Hizbullah sparking conflict in Lebanon. "Hizbullah started this by attacking Israel to protest the death of the Ayatollah, dragging Lebanon into a regional conflict it has nothing to do with," he said. On Friday, Israeli planes dropped leaflets calling on the Lebanese to disarm Hizbullah and contact Israeli intelligence to inform on the whereabouts of fighters or risk seeing Lebanon razed to the ground like Gaza.