Clinical Beating

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UN FLEE BEIRUT FEMALES

Hizbollah women force retreat from United Nation males.

Wednesday 27 October 2010

Photos: Dr. Iman Sharara speaking to journalists in her clinic in Beirut, Lebanon.

Dr. Sharara says dozens of women stormed in as U.N. male investigators were asking for some of her female patients telephone numbers and private files. Police and witnesses say more than a dozen women waiting the clinic scuffled with U.N. men and chased them out of the building. U.N. said their men were investigating the killing of the former prime minister. Witnesses said the women pulled the hair of a U.N. males and grabbed their briefcases. The Hague-based court said in an e-mail that they are taking the incident seriously.

Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said U.N. staff were actually Israeli spies. Whoever helps them is attacking Hezbollah. Nasrallah called on all Lebanese to boybott the U.N. team. Hassan Nasrallah described the U.N. tribunal as part of an Israeli plot against Hezbollah. He said he had been patient for months but now U.N. had crossed the red line. "I call on every Lebanese official and every citizen to boycott these investigators and not to co-operate with them. THey send all the information and data and addresses to Israel. From now on, any co-operation with the international investigators will be same as helping them to attack Lebanese resistance."

Police said more than 30 women stormed the building with 75 others outside. The crowd had been yelling curses and some took U.N. team's documents. Women then chased U.N. men out of Beirut clinic. U.N. team wanted phone numbers of female patients. Two women said they were forced to act after an Australian and a French national of U.N. team behaved immorally. Some women attacked the men. Lebanese army came and took away the two investigators to receive medical treatment after the incident.

Many Lebanese suspect that some U.N. investigators also serve as Israeli informants.


HEADLINES:

Women in Beirut clash with UN Hariri probe team - AFP
A group of women charged at investigators from a UN probe into the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri at a Beirut gynaecology clinic Wednesday.

Protesters attack Hariri murder investigators - F.T.
Protestors in Beirut attacked international officials investigating the murder of former prime pinister Rafiq al Hariri.

Canadian Press: Crowd attacks UN investigators as they look into Hariri assassination
A crowd "violently attacked" a team of UN investigators gathering evidence Wednesday in the death of a former Lebanese prime minister.

PRESS TV: Women chase UN men out of Beirut clinic
Dozens of women have chased UN investigators out of a private clinic in Beirut when they tried to question doctors about patients' personal information.

New York Times: Lebanon: UN Workers Attacked
A crowd attacked a team of United Nations investigators gathering evidence on Wednesday in the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister

Voice of America: UN's Hariri Tribunal Condemns 'Attack' on Beirut Staffers

Sign of God Passes

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Beirut, Lebanon - 4th of July 2010

Death of Hizbollah Founder

Lebanon's top Shia Cleric, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, 75, died on Sunday July 4, 2010. Fadlallah was known for his staunch anti-American stance. He was instrumental in the rise of Lebanon's Shiites in the past decades and had a strong following among Shiite communities both in Lebanon and his native Iraq.

Sayyed Ali Fadlallah, right, the son Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah speaks with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, left, as he gives his condolences, at a mosque in Beirut, Lebanon. July 4, 2010.

















Below: Sayyed Ali Fadlallah, left, and Bahraini Shia cleric Ayatollah Sayyed Abdulaah al-Ghurayfi, right, announce the death of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Fadlallah, at a mosque, in the Beirut on Sunday, July 4, 2010.


















Shia religous clerics mourn after the announcement that Lebanon's top spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah had died.


















Sayyed Jafar Fadlallah, left, the son of Lebanon's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, receives condolences, at a mosque in Beirut, Lebanon, 4th of July, 2010.

















Shia women mourn and hold poster of Lebanon's top cleric Ayatollah Fadlallah after the announcement that had died.

Hizbollah Mentor

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Founder of Hizbollah - the Party of God.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah

Died in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday 4th of July 2010.

Fadlallah

U.S. President Cater meets "terrorist" Ayatollah Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon.

Fadlallah quotes

Statements by Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah

"Israel has managed to seize technical control of the telecommunications network and to harm national security thanks to information provided by the collaborator over past years."

"[Alfa phone network employee Charbel Qazzi ] is an Israeli collaborator who has been active since 1996 and who for 14 years has been giving the enemy vital information on Lebanese communications and security."

In June 2009, when France was debating whether to ban the full body veil, Fadlallah accused the French president of "banning women from choosing their own clothes."

In a letter penned to President Barack Obama last year, Fadlallah said: "The size of support and cover-up provided by your country for the Zionist entity has become known. This entity was established on the land whose people were uprooted by the power of iron and fire. The subsequent American policies have contributed to the loss of the Palestinian cause, despite the ratification of many Security Council resolutions."

The government should have revealed its decision of rejecting the sanctions, especially that the US and "Israel" are the ones proposing it, "the vote against imposing sanctions is a vote against Israel" in the Security Council."

"Islam recognizes Judaism and rejects any offense against Jews or Christians......we have no complex toward Jews at the religious level."


See also,
Fadlallah's own website in English:

http://english.bayynat.org.lb/

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Funeral

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Funeral of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohamad Hussein Fadlullah.

Beirut 06/07/2010

Lovers and supporters of the late Shia Cleric took part in the procession.
Young and old, they carried his portrait as they marched saying:
"You're our ideal. You'll stay for ever in our minds. Someone like you cannot be forgotten."

Beirut

Bint Jbeil

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BBC - 27 July 2006

 

Bint Jbeil: Hezbollah heartland

 

"It was a tough day" - Maj Gen Udi Adam, Israeli army

 

Nestled in a shallow valley amid rolling hills, the south-eastern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, where eight Israeli soldiers have died in battle, has a strategic value to Israel and a symbolic history for Hezbollah.

When Israel's generals sent infantry forces across the border to engage Hezbollah directly, they knew one of the first major fights would be for the town.

A swift victory in Bint Jbeil - "daughter of the mountain" in Arabic - would have provided a boost for the Israeli campaign.

But long-standing Hezbollah associations with the town ensured the group's men would fight until the end.

When Israel ended its occupation of southern Lebanon in May 2000, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah chose Bint Jbeil as the site of his first "victory" rally.

He told tens of thousands of cheering Hezbollah followers that the group would continue campaigning for the release of Lebanese prisoners and the return of the Shebaa Farms, which Hezbollah claims as Lebanese territory but the UN has ruled is Syria's.

Six years on, and two weeks into Israel's military campaign against Hezbollah, Bint Jbeil - normally home to more than 20,000 people - returned to the spotlight.

Ambushed

"It was a tough day," Israel's Maj Gen Udi Adam told journalists after his forces lost nine men in one day of fierce fighting, all but one of them in Bint Jbeil.

Battalion 51 of Israel's elite Golani brigade had arrived in Bint Jbeil after the town was pounded for 48 hours by artillery fire and air power.

Knowing the Israelis would have to pass their way, most of the town's residents had already fled.

But while Israeli commanders had expected Hezbollah resistance - one referred to the area as a "dangerous nest" - it appears guerrillas flocked to Bint Jbeil even as the shells flew in, preparing for the fight ahead.

When Israel's troops arrived in the town's compact, narrow streets, they quickly came under fire from all directions.

The ambush was fierce and deadly: small arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank missiles and mortar rounds, according to an Israeli major quoted by the New York Times.

Israel's troops quickly sustained serious casualties, and the nature of their mission changed.

Pinned down by sustained Hezbollah fire, with eight dead and many more injured, Battalion 51 - which reportedly lost nine men in Lebanon in 1996 - spent the next six hours fending off attackers and trying to evacuate their casualties.

Resisting

In the aftermath of the battle, Israel's army talked tough.

There was praise for the unit that fought in Bint Jbeil, and a constant stress that Hezbollah also sustained heavy casualties. The battalion commander, Lt Col Yaniv Asor, said he was "ready for anything", according to Israel's Ynetnews.com.

But the heavy losses left media commentators divided about whether to intensify the attacks on Hezbollah.
Israel's security cabinet reportedly decided against launching a large-scale ground offensive, with ministers suggesting an intensified use of air power could guard against unwanted casualties on the ground.
On Bint Jbeil's official town website, visitors are greeted by a single-word declaration of intent: "Resisting!"
On the ground, the battle for the so-called "capital of the liberated south" seems set to continue.

BBC - 26 July 2006

Nine Israelis killed in Lebanon

 

The Israelis died in a battle for the town Bint Jbeil

 

Nine Israeli soldiers have been killed in fierce clashes with Hezbollah militants in south Lebanon. Eight troops died near the town of Bint Jbeil, Israel's biggest loss of life in a single incident so far during its two-week offensive.
In Rome, UN-led crisis talks ended with no agreement to urge an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
The talks were overshadowed by an outcry after an Israeli missile killed four UN observers on Tuesday.
The eight Israelis were killed early on Wednesday morning as Israeli forces tried to take control of Bint Jbeil, a strategically located town near the border between Lebanon and Israel.
The Israeli army confirmed the deaths on Wednesday evening.
Israel says the town is a Hezbollah stronghold, used by the militants as a launching ground for the barrages of rockets fired daily into northern Israel.
Twenty-two soldiers were injured in the fighting, the Israeli army said.
A military source told the BBC that several soldiers were killed when the Israeli infantry were ambushed near the town shortly before dawn on Wednesday.
More were killed during a rescue operation, which was followed by an intense five-hour firefight.
Later, another Israeli soldier was killed in the border village of Maroun al-Ras, which Israel moved into over the weekend after several days of fighting.
In the southern city of Tyre, a massive explosion destroyed a six-storey building where a local Hezbollah leader was believed to have an apartment.
At least six people were injured, although the building was empty at the time.
Correspondents say Israel has been meeting stronger resistance from Hezbollah than it initially anticipated.
A senior Israel army general said he expected the fighting would continue for "several more weeks".
More than 405 Lebanese and 51 Israelis have died in violence since Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on 12 July.
 
In other developments:

• Israeli forces attack an army base and a radio relay station north of Beirut early on Thursday
• Hezbollah fired more than 150 rockets into Israel, injuring 31 people, security and medical sources say
• Ten lorries loaded with food and medical supplies arrived in the southern town of Tyre from the capital, Beirut.

UN deaths
 
Details have emerged about the deaths of four unarmed UN observers after an Israeli air strike hit a UN post in south Lebanon on Tuesday.
UN staff had contacted Israeli troops 10 times to ask them to stop firing before a precision missile landed on the building, an initial UN report into the incident said.
Each time the UN contacted Israeli forces, they were assured the firing would stop, the report said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has expressed "deep regrets" over the deaths.
Israel is conducting an investigation into the incident and has rejected accusations made by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that the targeting of the UN position was "apparently deliberate".
White House spokesman Tony Snow said there was no reason to suggest the bombing was deliberate.
The UN Security Council discussed the issue, but broke up without agreeing a resolution condemning the attack.
The US objected to the wording in the resolution condemning "any deliberate attack against UN personnel".
'Utmost urgency'
The Rome summit, called by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, brought together EU and Arab nations plus the US and Russia, but not Israel, Iran or Syria.
Despite an impassioned warning from Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora that more people would die if a ceasefire was delayed, the ministers stopped short of calling for an immediate truce.
In a joint statement, the ministers attending pledged to work "with utmost urgency" for a ceasefire.
But, reflecting the US position, they said a ceasefire "must be lasting, permanent and sustainable".
There was agreement on the need for an international force with a UN mandate for south Lebanon, but no details were given about which countries would provide troops or the rules of engagement.
Ms Rice expressed concern about Syria and Iran's support for Hezbollah.
But Mr Annan said it was important to work with the countries of the region, including Syria and Iran, to find a solution to the crisis.
The BBC's Jonathan Beale says it seems the US got its way in the talks, and Mr Annan and the Arab nations represented at the summit will leave disappointed.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5218926.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5221086.stm

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Hero

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2010

CHRISTIANS HAIL NASRALLAH AS HERO IN LEBANON

A Hezbollah supporter, holds a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallahduring a rally marking the fourth anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, in Beirut's southern suburb, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Nasrallah praised the army for their "heroic" stand against Israel on Tuesday. He warned in a televised speech to thousands of supporters south of Beirut that his fighters would intervene if Israeli troops ever attack Lebanese forces again.

A Christian woman supporter of Hezbollah, right, carries a picture of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as he speaks on the occasion of Jerusalem Day in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Hezbollah leader says he will not respond to a U.N.-appointed prosecutor's demand for his group to hand over all information relevant to the assassination case of former Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says the group is ready to cooperate instead with the Lebanese judiciary.

Fans 1

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Muslim fans of Hassan Nasrallah