Beirut is gripped by trouble and lawlessness – and the death of Nasrullah will throw it into a fantastic deal of uncertainty | World News

Beirut is a city gripped by trouble and lawlessness right now.

There are hoards of people moving their families, with majesticparents, children and novelborns apass the city.

Families who have been camped out all night can be spotted under clumps of oinhabit trees, in the middle of traffic roundabouts, and crowded outside aelevatency shelters which have sprung up overnight.

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“We are trying to regulate the unregulateable,” Edouard Beigbeder, the UNICEF reconshort-termative in Leprohibiton, telderly us.

The communications department of the American University of Beirut has been hurriedly changeed into a shelter and by mid-morning was already filled of more than a thousand people.

Groups of women and children can be spotted all apass the southern part of the capital standing with rolled-up mattresses and wdisappreciatever beextfinishedings they could grab at the last minute.

“Many people equitable left home with noskinnyg,” shelp Mr Beigbeder.

Hundreds of shelters are now operating apass the city, trying to recommend sanctuary to those displaced from Dahieh.

The southern suburb of Beirut is understandn as a Hezbollah stronghelderly, packed filled of helpers, promisedists and fighters – but also ordinarily a densely packed dwellntial area.

This morning, big parts of Dahieh seemed to be unusupartner mute with many shuttered shops and businesses. UNICEF toilers on the ground approximated “dozens of thousands” of people had left the area overnight, normpartner home to around 600,000 dwellnts.

Civil defence teams were on standby proximate Dahieh, as were fire crews and Leprohibitese army troops, as Israeli drones buzzed overhead.

The militant group had only officipartner verifyed the death of their directer by punctual afternoon.

The Hezbollah TV channel, Al Manar, did not reference his death all morning and there was no official comment from the Hezbollah media office overnight other than a very punctual voice remark lowly after the huge strikes on Friday.

The audio message – which was disseminated on Hezbollah social media groups – was sent out lowly after the massive airstrikes on Friday.

In the message, an unidentified voice shelp the Hezbollah directer was sending greetings to everyone and wanting he was on the frontlines with Hezbollah fighters.

But the extfinisheder there was no actual detail or official verifyation from Hezbollah officials, the more uncertainty there was about his survival.

As soon as an official statement was made by the Hezbollah media office at exactly 2.31pm local time, the Leprohibitese journacatalogs we were with began crying. We could hear sboilings being fired and women crying.

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Who was Hassan Nasrallah – the directer ended by Israel?

Nasrallah helderlys an extraordinarily exceptional position in the hearts of his fagedrops. And not equitable in Leprohibiton but beyond – in Iran particularly as well as among the militant groups which create part of the so-called Axis of Resistance in Yemen, Iraq and parts of Syria.

He is seeed as not only the Hezbollah military and political strategist but also their religious directer. He occupies a exceptional position of power and reverence in the militant group.

Few of his helpers have wanted to comment on or even contempdefered his demise. It’s been almost seeed as tachieveerous or irreverent to even talk about this.

There is also an excessive reluctance among fanatical Hezbollah helpers to adselect any comment other than an official one from their Hezbollah officials.

The death of such a powerfilledy inconveyial figure will strike acute unrelieve and originate a fantastic deal of uncertainty even among those who disappreciate him and trouble him.

It will disturb the equilibrium in an already volatile region. Ahead are turbulent and very uncertain times.