Fighting began after a Hezbollah truck overturned in the town of Kahaleh, and residents closed roads. Two people were killed in fighting between members of the Shia armed group Hezbollah and residents of a Christian town after the residents surrounded an overturned truck, in the worst clash between Hezbollah and its opponents in Lebanon since fighting broke out in Beirut two years ago.
The truck – which Hezbollah said it owned – overturned on a downhill turn near the mountain town of Kahaleh on Wednesday evening and residents swiftly shut down the road around it. The armed group, which dominates Lebanon militarily, said that one of the dead was its member, and that “militias” had attacked the crew.
Local security sources said that the other person killed was a Christian resident of the town, which lies 12 kilometres southeast of Beirut, on the main road from Damascus.
There were no details on the contents of the truck, but the Lebanese Forces, a Christian party opposed to Hezbollah, accused the group of using it to transport weapons.
The local man killed was named as 64-year-old Fadi Bejjani. His son Youssef said that they had tried to get close to the truck after it had flipped. “We were a metre away but couldn’t see what was inside the truck,” Youssef Bejjani said. ..Lebanon aired footage of men in plainclothes shooting rifles in the street…
Source:aljazeera.com
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
