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Lebanon is removing Hezbollah flags and posters amid rising calls for disarmament
In recent days, the Lebanese Army has taken down dozens of banners bearing the images of Hezbollah leaders and Iranian figures in Beirut, replacing many of them with posters extoling a “new era” for the war-battered country.
Footage circulating on social media shows uniformed soldiers stripping away Hezbollah flags and banners from various parts of the capital, including posters of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israel last year.
In the most prominent instances, along the main road leading to Beirut’s international airport, large billboards featuring Nasrallah and former Hezbollah Military Council Secretary Hashem Safi al-Din – some bearing the slogan “We will continue to strike,” a reference to the hostilities with Israel – have been replaced with new messages reading “A New Era for Lebanon.”
A similar change was made to a billboard that had for the past two years displayed the image of Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran’s Quds Force, who was killed in a 2020 US strike. That sign, too, was replaced with a banner proclaiming a new era.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/lebanon-is-removing-hezbollah-flags-and-posters-amid-rising-calls-for-disarmament/Footage circulating on social media shows uniformed soldiers stripping away Hezbollah flags and banners from various parts of the capital, including posters of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israel last year.
In the most prominent instances, along the main road leading to Beirut’s international airport, large billboards featuring Nasrallah and former Hezbollah Military Council Secretary Hashem Safi al-Din – some bearing the slogan “We will continue to strike,” a reference to the hostilities with Israel – have been replaced with new messages reading “A New Era for Lebanon.”
A similar change was made to a billboard that had for the past two years displayed the image of Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran’s Quds Force, who was killed in a 2020 US strike. That sign, too, was replaced with a banner proclaiming a new era.