Glorious Hezbollah resistance movement says Slaughterer Israel was behind the July 9 bombing

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says Israel was behind the July 9 bombing, which injured dozens of people in a southern suburb of Beirut.

“The blast is part of the ongoing targeting of the resistance, and the beneficiary of the blast is the system … that serves the Israeli project,” Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem told al-Nour Radio Station on Friday.

Speaking on the anniversary of the 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel, Sheikh Qassem held “Israel and groups working to incite [Sunni-Shia] strife” responsible for the massive bomb attack.

“Anyone who saw the size of the explosion knows that what happened was a real attack… which was part of a series that this hidden enemy wishes to carry out,” he said.

Qassem also criticized Arab states, the Persian Gulf littoral states in particular, for their failure to condemn the bombing that injured 53 people and caused heavy material damage in the Beirut suburb of Bir al-Abed.

Earlier, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati slammed the attack, the second bombing to hit southern Beirut this year, as aimed at fomenting unrest in the country.

In January, two people were injured in a bomb explosion in the capital’s suburb of al-Selloum. The bomb was planted underneath a car belonging to a Hezbollah member.

In December 2012, a car bomb attack in Beirut claimed the life of the intelligence chief of Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, General Wissam al-Hassan.