The head of Hezbollah’s Sharia committee, Sheikh Muhammad Yazbek, gave the Lebanese army leadership hours to stop the raids on wanted persons in the Al-Sharawneh neighborhood in Baalbek.

Yazbek’s threat appeared in a video clip during a gathering of Hezbollah officials, in which he confirmed that Hezbollah will be on the side of the people of Baalbek, and if matters are not resolved within two hours, we are with them, “and let them take revenge on us as well.”

القيادي في حزب الله محمد يزبك يمهل الجيش ساعة للانسحاب من الشراونة و يهدده بشكل علني.. بات مكشوفاً دور الحزب الايراني بحماية عصابات المخدرات والخطف والسرقة
🛑 الشعب سحب الشرعية عن الحزب في الانتخابات على الدولة ان تلاقي مطلب الشعب بفرض الشريعة على اراضيها pic.twitter.com/UbSOGO5f9W

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Yazbek’s words come a day after the martyrdom of a member of the Lebanese army, Zine El-Din Shamas, during a raid carried out by the Lebanese army to arrest the wanted Ali Zuaiter, known as “Abu Salle.”