JERUSALEM and south LEBANON – Christian-Muslim tensions in Lebanon have erupted after the murder of well-known Christian politician Pascal Sleiman. Given his fierce opposition to Hezbollah, Lebanese Christians are worried for their safety as the terror group’s intimidation grows.
A Syrian gang is believed to have kidnapped and murdered Sleiman, a strong believer and senior member of the Christian Lebanese Forces Party.
Experts here see it as a political assassination linked to Hezbollah, meant to frighten the Christian community and whoever else opposes the group’s fight against Israel.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah took to the airwaves shortly after the government announced Sleiman’s murder, accusing Christians of stirring up chaos.
“They are not people of truth, nor are they people of truth, nor are they people of justice and they do not care about the national interest, civil peace, or anything. They are people of strife and seek civil war,” Nasrallah claimed.
Christians feel caught between the Jewish state and the Islamic terror group. The two enemies last fought in 2006.
Here along the valley of Klayaa, a Christian community in south Lebanon, the folks CBN News has spoken to cannot believe that Israel and Hezbollah are once again at war.
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