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Zeinobia says that last night Israeli Army operation on Baalbak city in South Lebanon is another fiasco that the army wants to appear like a victory to deceive the poor frightened people of Israel and says that it achieved some sort of victory.

She confirms that those captured persons are not Hezbollah elements at all, they are 5 civilians, 4 of them their ages are above 50 years old and the 5th is a teenager. Father and son, with his brother in law and their neighbor.

Posted by Haitham Sabbah

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