Hezbollah has entirely evacuated its headquarters in the Beirut suburb of Dahieh as a precaution against a possible Israeli response to the Lebanese terror group’s threatened revenge attack on Israel, Lebanese media reported Monday.
Outlet Al Joumhouria reported that Hezbollah has moved its entire operation — personnel, computers, and other equipment — out of Beirut, including its political wing.
The move came as Hezbollah is threatening to make Israel pay for the recent killing of the terror group’s top military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut. The report indicated Hezbollah is “preparing for the worst” with regard to Israel’s response to an attack by the Iran-backed group.
Hezbollah deputy chief Fuad Shukr was killed on July 30 in an Israeli airstrike on the terror group’s south Beirut stronghold. Hezbollah has pledged to avenge Shukr, whom Israel blamed for a July 27 missile attack that killed 12 children in the Golan Heights. A day after Shukr was killed, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran.
Israel claimed responsibility for killing Shukr but has neither denied nor confirmed being behind the Haniyeh assassination.
Nabih Berri, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament and a Hezbollah ally, stated Monday that “the response is inevitable,” adding that “revenge is a dish best served cold.”
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