Thousands of people filled a square in Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburb of Dahieh on Wednesday and poured into its densely populated sidestreets, answering the group’s call for a day of rage after the blast at a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday evening.
As the US president, Joe Biden, made a show of solidarity with Israel during a visit there, the crowds in Dahieh chanted: “We obey you, oh Nasrallah” and: “Death to America and Israel”. Some waved Hezbollah and Palestinian flags and carried pictures of the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
