🇱🇧 Heavy clashes between Lebanese army units and the Jaafar clan in the Sharouna neighborhood of the predominantly shiite city of Baalbak, North Eastern Lebanon

🇱🇧 👀 The clashes are part of the LAF’s current campaign against outlaws in the Baalbak region, killing multiple kingpins and clansmen, some of whom associated (closely or loosely) with Hezbollah

✍️ I would like to add that it should be noted the relationship Hezbollah might have/had with some of these groups is not one born out of love or ideological alignment, and is more pragmatic in nature and changes over the years

🧻 They work together informally when it’s convenient, similarly to business partners. It never went much further than that since Hassan Nasrallah very famously despised drug dealers almost as much as he hated Saudi Arabia, two very justified animosities

🇱🇧 🗿 People in Tripoli (predominantly sunni city) assaulting a dude (shiite) for having a picture of Hassan Nasrallah on his phone while at the barber