Sheikh Hammoud on Sidon Clashes: Hezbollah’s Apartments Issue Lie, Pretext

Imam of al-Quds Mosque in Sidon, Sheikh Maher Hammoud stressed that the clashes which erupted two days earlier in the city was pre-planned, warning that the resistance is facing a great conspiracy funded by Qatar and covered by Muslim Scholars in Egypt.

During a press conference in his office in Sidon, Sheikh Hammoud pointed out that half the militants who deployed in the city during the clashes were Syrians.

“We stand in these historic moments from Sidon to the region and the world to warn that there is a great conspiracy against the resistance,” Sheikh Hammoud said, noting that “Lebanon within all its sects is to pay the price of this conspiracy.”

Concerning the issue of Hezbollah’s apartments in Sidon’s eastern neighborhood of Abra, Sheikh Hammoud saidthat their issue was the biggest lie, stressing that Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir was using them as a pretext in order to incite sedition.

In this context, his eminence wondered: “Who can guarantee that Assir will not ask for the expulsion of the Shiite residents in Sidon?”

Sheikh Hammoud said that Tuesday clashes were pre-planned without taking into consideration the security of the citizens, the civil peace and the state.

The clashes “were not reaction against an attack that targeted a car which belongs to Assir’s brother. Before this incident there were other attacks against the family of As-Souss.”

Clashes erupted on Tuesday as Assir’s partisans opened fire in Abra, killing one civilian, called Mohammad Hashisho, and injuring many others.
Sheikh Hammoud assured that Hashisho was killed by the fire of Assir’s snipers.