Participants at Opposition Electoral Rally Assaulted in Southern Lebanon

A Bank customer holds a Lebanese flag during a protest outside the Lebanese parliament in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, 13 April 2022. (EPA)
A Bank customer holds a Lebanese flag during a protest outside the Lebanese parliament in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, 13 April 2022. (EPA)
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Participants at Opposition Electoral Rally Assaulted in Southern Lebanon

A Bank customer holds a Lebanese flag during a protest outside the Lebanese parliament in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, 13 April 2022. (EPA)
A Bank customer holds a Lebanese flag during a protest outside the Lebanese parliament in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, 13 April 2022. (EPA)

Lebanon continues to prepare for next month's parliamentary elections, with electoral rallies and events being held daily throughout the country.

Tensions have been high in some region, especially in the South, between the opposition and traditional powers, notably the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal party.

Partisan supporters reportedly assaulted on Saturday people seeking to participate at an elections event in the southern Sarafand region.

The opposition "Together towards Change" was holding a rally to unveil its candidates, who would be running in the second electoral district in the South.

Ahead of the rally, partisan supporters deployed in the area, leading to tensions that boiled over into shooting at and the assault of the participants, said activists on social media.

The opposition candidates accused members of the Amal movement of being behind the attack.

The movement, headed by parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, denied the accusation.



UNRWA: Israel is Using Advanced Weaponry in Jenin Operation

A group of Palestinians (rear) waits to leave from a hospital on the second day of an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 22 January 2025. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH
A group of Palestinians (rear) waits to leave from a hospital on the second day of an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 22 January 2025. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH
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UNRWA: Israel is Using Advanced Weaponry in Jenin Operation

A group of Palestinians (rear) waits to leave from a hospital on the second day of an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 22 January 2025. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH
A group of Palestinians (rear) waits to leave from a hospital on the second day of an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 22 January 2025. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH

Director of UNRWA Affairs in the West Bank Roland Friedrich said Wednesday that Israel is “using advanced weaponry and warfare methods including airstrikes” in its “massive operation” in the flashpoint West Bank town of Jenin.

On Tuesday, Israeli forces launched an operation in Jenin which Palestinian officials said killed 10 people, just days after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in the Gaza Strip.

Friedrich said Jenin Camp is “nearly uninhabitable, with some 2,000 families displaced since mid-December.”

“UNRWA has been unable to provide full services to the camp in this time,” he said on X.

“The operation comes merely a week before implementation of Israeli legislation that severely undermines UNRWA’s operations in the West Bank, including coordination of humanitarian access,” he said.

“It also threatens to undermine the fragile ceasefire reached just days ago in Gaza,” Friedrich added.