The Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Abdul Latif Deryan, condemned in a statement, "the massacre perpetrated by the Israeli enemy in the city of Nabatieh." He affirmed that "the Israeli aggression on southern Lebanon is a series of crimes committed by the Zionist entity, which adds to its dark record of committing horrific massacres that claim the lives of children, women, and elderly people safe in their homes in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the villages and towns of southern Lebanon." Deryan called on the international community to "act immediately to curb Zionist Nazism and stop the massacres being committed against the Palestinian and Lebanese people."