Controversy at airport as videos of pro-Hezbollah woman spread
Beirut’s airport witnessed controversy on Thursday during the arrival of pro-Hezbollah passengers who were stranded in Iran for several days after Lebanon banned the landing of two Iranian flights following reported Israeli threats and U.S. warnings.
The Nidaa al-Watan newspaper said the controversy started after “a group of individuals tried to paste posters of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on walls and offices.”
And as some reports said the controversy broke out after a young woman who appeared in a video was asked not to wave a Hezbollah flag and a Nasrallah poster inside the airport, Al-Jadeed TV said tensions surged after some arriving passengers placed a flag of the U.S. and another of Israel on the ground, prompting security forces to intervene to remove them and triggering the woman’s reaction.
Airport officials also told Al-Jadeed that security forces have not banned the carrying of “party flags or martyr posters” inside the facility.
“We have not paid in blood for you to tell us to get out! We’re the ones to stand here and you should go outside. Anyone who takes dictates from the Israelis and Americans should get out. This is not his homeland! He can emigrate, whoever doesn’t like this can emigrate! This is our country and those who don’t like this can emigrate!” the woman says in one of the videos, apparently addressing a security official.
“This airport is Lebanon’s airport and this is Lebanon,” she says in another video, pointing to a Nasrallah poster she was carrying.
“This is the real Lebanon, not the Lebanon that has Israeli and U.S. dictates. If you please, we are here in Beirut’s airport, our airport. We the Lebanese people who have offered our souls and blood. This is our airport and it is not up to you to prevent us from placing what we want,” the woman adds in a second video.
Source: Naharnet
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