[[{"content_id":420988,"content_number":0,"portal_id":2,"lang_id":"en","content_title":"Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker:\r\n\r\nZionist regime turns Lebanon into ‘bloody ballot box’ ahead of elections","content_rtitr":"","content_short_title":null,"content_summary":"Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says Zionist regime has turned southern Lebanon, its people and their property into a “bloody ballot box” in its upcoming electoral race, describing it as a competition over who can kill and destroy more.","content_summary_fill":1,"content_body":" \r\n\r\nBerri said on Sunday that the Zionist regime, at all political and military levels, has turned southern Lebanon and its residents into a tool for its own electoral competition.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHe described the aggression as a “battle in which everyone competes over who kills more and who destroys more,” ahead of the October 7 elections.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“If these actions indicate anything, they show that the Zionist regime, by continuing its devastating war in a bloody and unprecedented manner, has decisively proven that it has not adhered to any form of ceasefire agreement and has violated all rules, agreements and understandings,” he added.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBerri made the remarks hours after an Israeli airstrike completely destroyed Ghandour Hospital in the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe attack on the hospital followed a series of Israeli strikes across the Nabatieh district that killed four people and wounded 20 others, according to a preliminary Health Ministry toll.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe parliament speaker said that the Zionist regime’s killing of Lebanese women and children constituted acts of terrorism.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHe said that “what has happened and continues to happen in the south is as much an international responsibility, requiring immediate intervention to stop the war against Lebanon and its south.”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe war, he said, was also “a national responsibility,” requiring all parties to stand together, consider its cause as the cause of all Lebanese, and regard its defense as the defense of Lebanon.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSince March 2, Zionist regime has continued its offensive against Lebanon, which has martyred more than 4,000 people and injured more than 12,000 others.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLebanese authorities also report that more than 1 million people have been displaced.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nZionist regime maintains its occupation of certain areas in southern Lebanon, with some regions having been held for decades and others since the 2023–24 war, while its recent military aggression has further extended its reach into Lebanese territory.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","content_html":"

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Berri said on Sunday that the Zionist regime, at all political and military levels, has turned southern Lebanon and its residents into a tool for its own electoral competition.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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He described the aggression as a “battle in which everyone competes over who kills more and who destroys more,” ahead of the October 7 elections.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“If these actions indicate anything, they show that the Zionist regime, by continuing its devastating war in a bloody and unprecedented manner, has decisively proven that it has not adhered to any form of ceasefire agreement and has violated all rules, agreements and understandings,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Berri made the remarks hours after an Israeli airstrike completely destroyed Ghandour Hospital in the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The attack on the hospital followed a series of Israeli strikes across the Nabatieh district that killed four people and wounded 20 others, according to a preliminary Health Ministry toll.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The parliament speaker said that the Zionist regime’s killing of Lebanese women and children constituted acts of terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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He said that “what has happened and continues to happen in the south is as much an international responsibility, requiring immediate intervention to stop the war against Lebanon and its south.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The war, he said, was also “a national responsibility,” requiring all parties to stand together, consider its cause as the cause of all Lebanese, and regard its defense as the defense of Lebanon.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Since March 2, Zionist regime has continued its offensive against Lebanon, which has martyred more than 4,000 people and injured more than 12,000 others.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Lebanese authorities also report that more than 1 million people have been displaced.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Zionist regime maintains its occupation of certain areas in southern Lebanon, with some regions having been held for decades and others since the 2023–24 war, while its recent military aggression has further extended its reach into Lebanese territory.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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