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The Maronite Patriarch, Archbishop Bechara al-Rai, began a visit to Tyre on Thursday morning to show solidarity with the inhabitants and displaced persons of southern Lebanon.
Bombardments resumed in southern Lebanon on Thursday morning following a night of precarious calm. Israeli artillery targeted the areas of Wadi Al-Slouki, Hula, and Markaba (Marjayoun), while reconnaissance aircraft flew over villages in the western and central sectors as far as the southern coast. Hezbollah announced that it had targeted the Marj position and the Ramim forest on Thursday morning.
Alarm sirens sounded on Thursday in the Margaliot settlement and the Ramim barracks in Wadi Hounin. In response to the ongoing attacks that commenced on October 8, when Hezbollah opened the southern front in support of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, the Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai began a visit to southern Lebanon on Thursday morning in solidarity with the displaced and inhabitants of villages targeted by Israeli bombardment.
His first stop was the Maronite Archbishopric of Tyre, where he recited a prayer. Welcomed by UNIFIL and UNRWA officials, local personalities, and a faithful crowd, he is scheduled to visit the city’s Greek-Catholic archdiocese. There, he is expected to meet Christian and Muslim religious leaders before sharing his views on the current situation in south Lebanon.
The municipal councils of Rmeish, Ain Ebel, and Debel have called on the Patriarch to visit their villages.
On Wednesday evening, flare bombs were dropped on villages adjacent to the Blue Line in the western and central sectors. A shell also fell into the sea off the Bab Al-Tem area in the locality of Qassimiya.
As of Wednesday, the natural disaster management unit of the Federation of Municipalities of Tyre had registered 20,000 displaced persons from villages in southern Lebanon, spread across five accommodation centers in Tyre. Hundreds more have sought refuge in other parts of Lebanon. The Disaster Management Unit also reported a lack of resources, particularly as “almost forty villages are no longer safe for civilians.”
Bombardments resumed in southern Lebanon on Thursday morning following a night of precarious calm. Israeli artillery targeted the areas of Wadi Al-Slouki, Hula, and Markaba (Marjayoun), while reconnaissance aircraft flew over villages in the western and central sectors as far as the southern coast. Hezbollah announced that it had targeted the Marj position and the Ramim forest on Thursday morning.
Alarm sirens sounded on Thursday in the Margaliot settlement and the Ramim barracks in Wadi Hounin. In response to the ongoing attacks that commenced on October 8, when Hezbollah opened the southern front in support of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, the Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai began a visit to southern Lebanon on Thursday morning in solidarity with the displaced and inhabitants of villages targeted by Israeli bombardment.
His first stop was the Maronite Archbishopric of Tyre, where he recited a prayer. Welcomed by UNIFIL and UNRWA officials, local personalities, and a faithful crowd, he is scheduled to visit the city’s Greek-Catholic archdiocese. There, he is expected to meet Christian and Muslim religious leaders before sharing his views on the current situation in south Lebanon.
The municipal councils of Rmeish, Ain Ebel, and Debel have called on the Patriarch to visit their villages.
On Wednesday evening, flare bombs were dropped on villages adjacent to the Blue Line in the western and central sectors. A shell also fell into the sea off the Bab Al-Tem area in the locality of Qassimiya.
As of Wednesday, the natural disaster management unit of the Federation of Municipalities of Tyre had registered 20,000 displaced persons from villages in southern Lebanon, spread across five accommodation centers in Tyre. Hundreds more have sought refuge in other parts of Lebanon. The Disaster Management Unit also reported a lack of resources, particularly as “almost forty villages are no longer safe for civilians.”
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