A shrapnel-riddled vehicle following the Israeli strikes on Jnah and Khalde, in Beirut's southern suburbs, on April 1, 2026. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient Today)
Since the start of the war, the Israeli army has targeted central Beirut several times. In order to prevent a repeat of this scenario, MPs from the capital are working to try to keep it, as much as possible, safe from the ongoing war between Hezbollah and Israel.The idea would be to ensure the army's monopoly over weapons in the capital to push the government to move forward on this issue, which still depends on a "genuine collective political decision," to borrow the words of Fouad Makhzoumi, an anti-Hezbollah MP from the capital. On the flip-side Pro-Hezbollah protest in Riad al-Solh backs ‘resistance,’ criticizes government decisions "Beirutis are aware of the importance of guaranteeing the city's security, making it disarmed, and helping those displaced by the war," a Sunni figure from Beirut told...
Since the start of the war, the Israeli army has targeted central Beirut several times. In order to prevent a repeat of this scenario, MPs from the capital are working to try to keep it, as much as possible, safe from the ongoing war between Hezbollah and Israel.The idea would be to ensure the army's monopoly over weapons in the capital to push the government to move forward on this issue, which still depends on a "genuine collective political decision," to borrow the words of Fouad Makhzoumi, an anti-Hezbollah MP from the capital. On the flip-side Pro-Hezbollah protest in Riad al-Solh backs ‘resistance,’ criticizes government decisions "Beirutis are aware of the importance of guaranteeing the city's security, making it disarmed, and helping those displaced by the war," a Sunni figure from Beirut...
