Fathallah barracks

The Fathallah barracks were the early headquarters of the Hezbollah organisation, situated in the Basta neighbourhood of West Beirut. [1][2] On February 25th 1987 it was attacked by Syria in retaliation for Hezbollah's support for Palestinian factions in the War of the Camps against the Syrian-backed Amal movement. [3] Hezbollah condemned the attack as an "unjustifiable massacre" and called for the prosecution of the Syrian troops involved, but did not call for revenge attacks. [4] Hezbollah's headquarters were later moved to secret locations in Dahieh.


References

  1. Pax Syriana
  2. Beirut Shows Signs Of Life, Death
  3. Washington and Hezbollah Rare Convergence of Interests?
  4. Middle East Contemporary Survey
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, September 23, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.