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Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Sadness" for the bloody attack that hit "almost three thousand Lebanese citizens" by turning their pagers and walkie-talkies into explosive devices, and his firm condemnation of the Israeli attack that "uses means of communication to kill indiscriminately" is what Lebanese Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, Patriarch of the Maronite Church, said in a brief statement released through social networks, referring to the unprecedented operation to blow up electronic devices carried out by the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah party, leaving dozens dead and thousands injured. In the brief statement, the Maronite Patriarch condemns "all forms of aggression against the Lebanese and Palestinian people, especially against the unarmed," and asks "Almighty God to have mercy on those who have lost their lives, to console their families and the wounded, to grant healing to the wounded and to grant a complete and just peace to our region and the world."
Last Sunday, before the Israeli operation, Patriarch Béchara Raï had criticized those who want Lebanon "without a state, without laws and without a constitution." He did so in his homily during the mass celebrated in Mayfouk in memory of the fallen of the Lebanese Forces Party during the war years. "There are people," added the Patriarch, without explicitly referring to political parties, "who want Greater Lebanon (proclaimed in 1920 under French mandate) to be an empty land so that they can carry out their plans, without a state, laws and constitution." Cardinal Raï, meanwhile, paid tribute to the veterans of the "Front for the Liberation of Lebanon" who "are ready to sacrifice their interests." On the same day, the Shiite Mufti of the Jafarite school, Ahmad Kabalan, meanwhile, praised Hezbollah's so-called "resistance" against Israel and condemned those who collaborated with the Israeli army during the civil war (1975-1990), referring to the Lebanese Armed Forces. (FB) (Agenzia Fides, 20/9/2024)
