{"id":578677,"date":"2026-08-08T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/578677\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:32:13","slug":"lebanons-shiite-urged-to-launch-intifada-against-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/578677\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s Shi\u2019ite urged to launch \u2018intifada\u2019 against Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s Shi\u2019ite population should carry out an \u201cintifada\u201d against Hezbollah, Kataeb leader Sami Gemayel told a delegation from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-904871\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lebanese<\/a> Press Editors\u2019 Syndicate, according to Lebanese media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Gemayel told the delegation that there was no solution to the conflict that Lebanon could alone solve. \u00a0His comments were made only days before it was reported that mutually agreed-upon third nations would monitor and verify the disarmament of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-904870\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though a supporter of the US-backed peace framework for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/article-904814\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beirut and Jerusalem<\/a>, he acknowledged that the situation was also dependent on wider regional developments, namely Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah, which is backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-904885\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> and holds loyalty to the ayatollah as a central pillar of its ideology under Wilayat al-Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist), will continue to act on Tehran\u2019s instructions, he said, making Lebanon\u2019s situation dependent on wider regional developments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Gemayel made clear that he viewed the Shi\u2019ite community as victims of Hezbollah and said he had approached Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to discuss how to engage with the community about creating a separation between it and Hezbollah, a discussion that Berri was quick to shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Berri, though the leader of the Amal Movement, is closely allied with Hezbollah, and a number of researchers, including Lebanese researcher Hanin Ghaddar, have written extensively about how Hezbollah has bolstered his political position.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Orient Today reported that Gemayel suggested the Shi\u2019ite population was being held hostage to Hezbollah and there should, therefore, be an \u201cintifada\u201d (uprising) against the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s Shi\u2019ite population should carry out an \u201cintifada\u201d against Hezbollah, Kataeb leader Sami Gemayel told a delegation from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,86,87,46,88,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-578677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}