Ansarullah decries Israel bloody massacre in east Lebanon , urges unified Arab action

globalsecurity.org · Feb 23, 2026 · Collected from GDELT

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Iran Press TV Sunday, 22 February 2026 10:14 AM Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement has strongly condemned the Israeli rgeime's "bloody massacre" in Lebanon's eastern Beqaa region, which killed roughly a dozen people and wounded many more, calling it a flagrant violation of humanitarian values and international conventions. The political bureau of Ansarullah said on Sunday that the Israeli airstrike, which targeted a neighborhood inside the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon, falls within the framework of Israel's expansionist agendas. It said the crime extends beyond attacking Lebanese civilians and infringing upon Lebanon's sovereignty, describing it as part of attempts to enforce new dynamics associated with the initiative of the so-called "Greater Israel" and the "New Middle East." It also expressed its complete support for the Lebanese nation and the Hezbollah resistance movement in the face of Israeli acts of aggression backed by US and Western threats. Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health said on Saturday that Israeli strikes on eastern Lebanon killed 10 people and wounded 24, including three children. Two officials with Hezbollah said eight members of the resistance movement were killed in strikes near the village of Rayak in northeast Lebanon late on Friday. One of the Hezbollah officials said three of the dead were local commanders and identified them as Ali al-Moussawi, Mohammed al-Moussawi and Hussein Yaghi. Yaghi was the son of prominent Hezbollah official and one of its founders, Mohammed Yaghi, who died in 2023. Mohammed Yaghi was also a close aide to late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut in September 2024. In its statement, Ansarullah also sharply criticized the latest remarks by United States Ambassador to the Israeli-occupied territories Mike Huckabee, where he suggested that the regime has a right to expand its territory across a large swath of the West Asia region. It stated that Huckabee's comments went beyond diplomatic standards and revealed clear US support for Israel's expansionist goals at the cost of Palestine and other Arab nations, adding that mere statements of condemnation are inadequate now. The resistance group called upon Arab governments to take serious and coordinated measures to address the escalating danger. It finally urged Arab and Muslim nations to take on their responsibilities regarding what it cautioned are grave challenges threatening the survival of the entire nation. NEWSLETTER Join the GlobalSecurity.org mailing list