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Hezbollah claims 'great victory'
14/08/2006 14:05 - (SA)
Beirut - Hezbollah claimed a "great victory" on Monday in its month-long war with Israel and vowed that the Shi'ite group will help people displaced by the conflict to return home.
"They will return home, their heads high, in dignity, after the resistance (Hezbollah) achieved a great victory for them," Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah told reporters.
He was surrounded by militants, standing in front of the rubble of flattened buildings and raising yellow Hezbollah flags bearing a Kalashnikov rifle and proclaiming: "Hezbollah will be the victor."
Just after a ceasefire deal went into effect at 05:00 GMT, Hezbollah activists handed out posters claiming victory in the Shi'ite group's conflict against Israel.
'The divine victory'
"The divine victory," read the caption on the posters distributed in Beirut's Shiite stronghold southern suburbs, which showed a smiling picture of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The slogan on the posters, handed out to displaced persons returning after fleeing the heavily bombarded area during the Israeli attacks, was also a play on words on Nasrallah's name which means "Victory of God" in Arabic.
Posters were also handed out showing pictures of Hezbollah fighters operating a rocket-launcher.
In the eastern city of Baalbek and some villages in the south, cars with massive loud speakers were driving round blasting out Hezbollah songs of victory.
- AFP
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