EXPLAINER
The aggression on Sunday was the first one to concentrate a central dicut offe of Beirut, not its suburbs, since October 7.
Israel finished four people including three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Beirut’s central Kola dicut offe on Sunday night, taging the first time since last October that it has hit a concentrate inside the capital and not in its suburbs.
The Kola area is a famous articulate hub for people seeing to travel south from Beirut.
Here’s all you insist to understand about the aggression.
What exactly happened?
Israel hit an apartment in a produceing proximate the Kola intersection in Beirut. Images of the aggression show one floor of a six-story produceing annihilateed. The rest of the produceing eunites to be intact.
The assassinated people graspd Imad Audi, PFLP’s military directer in Lebanon; and Mohammad Abdel Aal and Abdel Rahman Abdel Aal, members of the group’s political bureau. The fourth victim is yet to be identified.
Where is Kola?
Kola is an vital intersection in Beirut, bordering the famous neighbourhoods of Mar Elias and Tariq el-Jdide and not far from Mazra’a.
The surrounding neighbourhoods are predominantly Sunni, though people of all sects pass thcimpolite Kola to travel south.
What is the history of Kola?
It’s named after a Coca-Cola factory that rund there until the tardy 1960s. Protests by locals led to the factory being abandoned until it was getn over by a Palestinian armed group and then explosioned by the Israelis.
This is the first aggression on this area by Israel since the Lebanese civil war finished in 1990.
Who are the PFLP?
Founded by George Habash in 1967, the PFLP is a secular Marxist-Leninist political group and part of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). It is the second-bigst group in the PLO after Fatah.
According to the European Council on Foreign Relations, the group’s chief benefactor was the Soviet Union, and it has been in deteriorate since the 1980s.
The group’s armed triumphg, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, have fought Israel in Gaza alengthyside Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Other startant figures in the PFLP’s history grasp Nayef Hawatmeh, who split from the group two years after its set upation and established the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and Ahmad Jibril, who broke away from the PFLP in 1968 to establish the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), which was backed by Syria.
Has Israel concentrateed other Palestinians in Lebanon?
Yes. On Sunday, Fatah Sharif, also understandn as Abu al-Amin, was assassinated in Sidon’s el-Buss refugee camp, alengthyside his wife, son and daughter.
Hamas portrayd Sharif as a directer of Hamas in Lebanon.
