Beirut airport was focused by a cyberattack on Sunday (Jan 7), mentioned Lebanon’s state information company, with native media sharing footage of the display shows flashing anti-Hezbollah messages at its terminal.
“The cyberattack on the departure and arrival screens on the airport disrupted the BHS baggage inspection system,” the National News Agency mentioned.
Local media circulated photographs of a message denouncing Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group, which as per information company AFP reviews was displayed onscreen alongside the logo of the Christian “Soldiers of God” group.
Since the Israel-Hamas battle started on Oct 7, the Shiite Muslim motion Hezbollah and its arch-enemy Israel have engaged in nearly every day cross-border gunfire, with the Lebanese group claiming it was working in help of its Palestinian companion Hamas.
The message mentioned the airport was “not the airport of Hezbollah and Iran”, in line with the reviews.
“Hassan Nasrallah, nobody will help you when you drag the nation into struggle,” it added, addressing the group’s chief, additionally saying “We won’t battle on behalf of anybody.”
“You’re going to explode our airport by bringing in weapons. Let the airport be free of the grip of the (Hezbollah) statelet,” the airport message mentioned.
Hezbollah supply says native chief killed in Israeli strikes
Hezbollah on Thursday (Jan 4) mentioned {that a} native chief was amongst 4 fighters killed in a single day in southern Lebanon in Israeli strikes on the border city of Naqura.
As per AFP reviews, the militant group mentioned that the useless included an area Hezbollah chief.
This comes after a strike on Beirut this week, which a US protection official mentioned was carried out by Israel, killed a senior Hamas chief, which additional raised tensions within the West Asia area as a result of struggle within the Gaza Strip.
Providing particulars in an announcement Hezbollah mentioned that the 4 fighters had been killed “on the highway to Jerusalem” – it’s a phrase which they use to announce the deaths of its members because of Israeli fireplace for the reason that Israel-Hamas preventing began on October 7 .
Meanwhile, a supply near Hezbollah advised AFP that 4 have been killed in Naqura close to the Israeli border, including that certainly one of them was the motion’s native chief.
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