PM Salam meets Hezbollah's Khalil who urges govt. to rebuild war-hit houses
The relation between Hezbollah and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is not at its best, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper said Friday.
The daily reported that despite the disagreements, ties are not severed and communication and coordination between the two sides are ongoing.
According to al-Akhbar, Salam met last week with Political Advisor to Hezbollah's Secretary General, Hussein al-Khalil, who stressed that the reconstruction of war-hit Lebanon and rebuilding the destroyed homes and villages should be the government's priority.
The World Bank has granted Lebanon a $250 million loan that will be used to help ease electricity cuts worsened by last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah. The 14-month war that ended in late November also badly damaged other infrastructure in parts of Lebanon. The country was already facing major electricity problems, especially following an economic meltdown that began in late 2019.
The fighting also destroyed vast swathes of Hezbollah's strongholds in the country's south and east, as well as Beirut's southern suburbs. Tens of thousands of houses were reduced to rubble in Israeli airstrikes.
The World Bank estimated Lebanon's recovery and reconstruction costs at $11 billion.
09 May 2025, 15:11
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If Hezbollah thinks there are still "two sides" they are wrong and haven't learned the lessons of failing in the war they imposed on Lebanon.
There is and can only be one side: Lebanon and the duly elected national government which, through its army, courts, and government officials imposes the will of her citizens as a whole on those who deviate from the country's decisions.
09 May 2025, 15:21
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Khalil urges govt. to rebuild war-hit houses.
When you declared war on Israel, did you ask the government for its approval? Now, you want the government to rebuild the houses you and only you were the reason they were destroyed!
09 May 2025, 17:18
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Hussein al-Khalil should abide by hassin's, Hashem Safieddine's and Naim Qassem's promises and the many al-Akhbar newspaper reports, that Hezbollah will rebuild all that was destroyed better than before. Otherwise admit to the lies and beg the Lebanese people for forgiveness and hand over what caused the destruction. Most of us are more than whiling to rebuild what was destroyed, better than before, as we welcomed our displaced brothers and sisters in our homes.
09 May 2025, 17:20
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Start a war, lose and then *demand* than the government build houses that hizb destroyed by unilaterally starting a war. Part of the reason why there is no money is because hizb doesn't want to let go of its arms. Maybe try that avenue too....
