Tonight, news is spreading about a prominent military commander for Hezbollah, Mustafa Badr Addin, and who had lost his life in Syria while fighting in an alliance with Iranian revolutionary guards and regular troops of the Assad regime. His funeral in Lebanon now made thousands of supporters take to the streets.
الآلاف يشاركون في تشييع جنازة مصطفى بدر الدين القائد العسكري البارز لحزب الله
Thousands participate in the public funeral of Mustafa Badr
Addin, the military leader starring in combat for Hezbollah.
[Source: BBC Arabic evening news on May 13, 2016]
Tonight, as well, the Arabic channel of Al-Jazeera covered the subject in their regular special "Behind the News ما وراء الخبر". Here some quotations from that program:
حزب الله تكبد خسائر كبيرة من مقاتليه و نخبة قادته العسكريين في سوريا
Hezbollah is suffering from big losses of its warriors and [from] the choice of its military leaders in Syria.
بدر الدين قتل في منطقة يحميها كل من النظام السوري و روسيا و إيران
The killing of Badr Addin happened in a region protected by the Syrian regime, by Russia and Iran.
بدر الدين كان مسؤول الوحدات المقاتلة لحزب الله في سوريا و شقيق زوجة عماد مغنية
Badr Addin was responsible for the fighting units of Hezbollah in Syria and brother of Imad Mughniyya's wife.
[Editor's Note: Imad Mughniyya had been an important member of the Hezbollah secret service. Mughniyya was held responsible for several terrorist attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets. He died in a car bombing in Damascus in 2008.]
بدر الدين هو المتهم الأول في اغتيال رئيس الوزراء اللبناني الأسبق رفيق الحريري
Badr Addin is the first suspect in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
الصحافة الإسرائيلية ترحب بمقتل بدر الدين و تقول إنه ضربة قاصمة لحزب الله
Israeli media are celebrating the death of Badr Addin and say that [his death] is a disastrous blow against Hezbollah.
Update for May 14, 2016:
Reminding Unfinished Business .....
[Headline of Washington Post on May 13, 2016]
Hezbollah’s involvement in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq risks to spill over sectarian tensions into Lebanon where the Islamic State and the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front are steadily expanding.
UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen expressed his serious concern at Hezbollah and other militias having not only continued but even increased their military activities since the Security Council ordered them to disband in 2004. He also expressed concern at the reported expansion of extremist groups within Lebanon, mostly in Palestinian refugee camps. All activities to be abandoned are seen as a general threat to the internal stability and sovereignty of Lebanon where the political wing of Hezbollah already holds two seats in the country's government.
So far the raw information from United Nations Security Council and which has been deployed, as well, by Al-Arabiya العربية the following day on May 14:
Above photo: Terje Roed-Larsen deals with implementation of
the 2004 Security Council resolution No. 1559 that is, among
other items, calling for disarmament and demobilization of all
militias operating in Lebanon.
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