Lebanon's Shia movement Hizb Allah has urged a new attempt to resolving Lebanon's political crisis, adding that only Israel would benefit from last night's bomb blast in Beirut. After meeting with prominent Mufti Mohammed Rashid Qabbani on Saturday, Hassan Nasr Allah, the Secretary-General of Hizb Allah stressed that "there are no grounds for a sectarian strife between Shia and Sunnis in Lebanon," Aljazeera reported. He also reiterated his rejection of calls for Hizb Allah to disarm, saying the movement's status was a strictly domestic matter. "It is a very dangerous incident," Nasr Allah said of an explosion early on Saturday in a Christian residential area that wounded 11 people and caused extensive damage. "Someone wants to increase tension and instability," he said, adding that "Israel is the beneficiary." But he stressed that he was not levelling any "premature accusations." Addressing reporters Nasr Allah also appealed to the anti-Syrian "opposition to sit down at a table to talk and to find a way out of the political crisis."
"We back any national dialogue that takes place ... We will not tire of calling for national dialogue," he said, adding, "there are no grounds for civil war, and we must not create grounds", Aljazeera television reported him saying. |