Source: Kataeb.org
Security & Justice
Captured Hezbollah Operative May Have Been Israeli Double Agent, Report Suggests
The alleged senior Hezbollah operative abducted by Israeli special forces last week in Batroun may have been operating as a double agent, according to a report by The Telegraph.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Lebanon’s Probe into Israeli Raid Expected to Take Days as Security Officials Weigh Theories
Lebanese authorities are ramping up investigations into an Israeli commando raid last week in the northern coastal city of Batroun, during which Imad Amhaz, a Hezbollah official, was snatched.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Wednesday 12 July 2023 19:16:48
Kataeb Foreign Affairs Department: EU Parliament Resolution’s Article on Syrian Refugees Failed to Propose a Viable Solution
The European Parliament voted today on a Resolution on Lebanon that tackled many aspects of the crisis in the country, including the Presidential Vacuum, Sanctions against corrupt Lebanese ruling party figures, Support for the investigation into the Beirut Port Explosion, and the topic of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon.
The original draft, proposed by our partners in the European People’s Party (EPP), included all the points and priorities that the Kataeb, as a partner of the EPP, voiced for many years during its participation with our European partners. However, while discussing the Resolution with other groups in the European Parliament (EP) - including the Greens, Leftists, Communists, and Renew Europe, and in the absence of the Identity and Democracy Group (ID), many points were amended in order to ensure the support of all the groups for this Resolution.
While the Kataeb Party strongly supports the articles in the Resolution that focus on those who contributed to the deteriorating situation in Lebanon. We highly condemn the article on the Syrian refugees, which failed to draw out a necessary roadmap curtailing their return to Syria, noting that it is a crucial point for Lebanon's stability and existence.
The Kataeb Party voiced its position on the presence of over 1.5 million Syrian refugees within Lebanon's territory during all its encounters with foreign partners, including the EPP, and called for their expedited return to Syria while asking the international community to exert pressure on the Bashar al-Assad regime to facilitate the social and political conditions for their return while incentivizing the refugees via UN Agencies to return to their homeland.
The party will continue challenging the policy mentioned in Article 13 of the Resolution and advocate for the proper approach towards the question of the Syrian Refugees, which has been agreed upon by the vast majority of the Lebanese people.
On this occasion, we would like to thank our partners in the EPP for the continuous support they have provided the Lebanese people through multiple milestones, in particular the October 2019 revolution, the 2020 August 4th port explosion, the economic and social crises plaguing the nation since 2019, and their steadfast countering of Hezbollah's attempts to overtake Lebanese sovereignty.
