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Ashura in Lebanon marked by parallels with the Gaza war

L’Orient Today visited the southern suburbs of Beirut where the procession commemorating the death of Imam al-Hussein was woven with Hezbollah’s war “to liberate Palestine.”

Ashura in Lebanon marked by parallels with the Gaza war

A man puts his hand on this chest as he supports the kid sitting on his shoulders, during the Ashura procession in the southern suburbs of Beirut on July 17, 2024. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient Today)

BEIRUT — This year, the thousands from the Shiite community who gathered in the southern suburbs of Beirut to commemorate Ashura marched under the photos of more than 300 Hezbollah members killed in the last nine months of the war with...
BEIRUT — This year, the thousands from the Shiite community who gathered in the southern suburbs of Beirut to commemorate Ashura marched under the photos of more than 300 Hezbollah members killed in the last nine months of the war with...