Basil: We Will Not Remain Silent About Attacks on Our Capital Beirut

The head of the "Free Patriotic Movement," Deputy Gebran Basil, affirmed that "the Movement cannot remain a bystander and silent while witnessing our capital Beirut being bombed, and Lebanese children being killed by a foreign and enemy state." During a dinner for the Movement's veterans committee, Basil stated: "We are not human if our humanitarian feelings do not move us, and we do not empathize with sadness and stance when we see Lebanese children in Beirut, and Palestinian children in Gaza, dying in such a brutal and inhumane manner. We are not sovereign if we watch our country being threatened by an enemy that has previously destroyed our country and threatens to return us to the Stone Age without condemning or confronting it." He asked: "How can sovereignty concern selective sovereigns regarding Syria but not Israel?" He added: "We cannot say that we have no connection to our existential problem with Israel, and we cannot remain neutral in a battle with it, nor can we speak of our refusal of war if Israel attacks and wages war against us."