A second report (update) has now been posted below the first report.
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First Report
The following incident is a sample of the chronic lawlessness that Hezbollah deliberately allows in the regions it controls (South Lebanon, the Bekaa and Hermel districts, and the southern suburbs of Beirut).
A patrol of the Lebanese Security Forces was directed to check on a suspected illegal construction on public land in the south Lebanon village of Tefahta. As the foot patrol approached the site, a mob of Hezbollah thugs began pelleting the patrol with glass bottles and rocks, forcing the patrol to shoot in the air as it retreated to avoid a more serious confrontation. You'll notice in the video in the link below that the mob was ready for the confrontation, that it dispatched two men to see what the policemen wanted, and that when the policemen told them they were tasked with checking on an illegal construction on public land, the two young men ran back toward the mob and gave it the signal to begin their attack against the policemen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkbIwJcu_Tk
This is typical of the inability of the State to enforce the laws in areas controlled by Hezbollah which argues that its "resistance" requires it to keep government off those areas it controls. But these areas are entire villages and towns where lawlessness is rampant, including drugs, weapons, illegal constructions, etc., and those are the real reasons why Hezbollah wants to keep the security forces and the army out of them. In other words, Hezbollah runs a canton of corruption, illegality and criminality of all kinds under the pretense of 1) its Shiite Muslims are "dispossessed, poor, disenfranchised, ..." when the reality is that the Shiite emigrant diaspora (Africa, America) is by far wealthier than any other Lebanese community (just tour south Lebanon and see for yourself the castles, the villas and other ostentatious displays of wealth), and 2) it is a "resistance" against the Israeli occupation of Lebanese territory, a fallacious pretext that gives Iran a beachhead on the Mediterranean and a border with its archenemy Israel.
In fact, the area where the confrontation occurred is the very same area where a Hezbollah critic by the name of Loqman Slim was shot dead in his own house in 2021. This is the very same area where Hezbollah operatives shot at a UNIFIL (UN peacekeeping force monitoring the Lebanese-Israeli borders) patrol killing one Irish soldier and injuring several others a few months ago.
In the 1970s and 1980s, and prior to the enactment of the Taef Agreement which transferred the executive powers of the Christian president to the benefit of the Muslim Prime Minister, whenever the government tried to enforce the laws in areas controlled by Palestinians and Muslim militias (for example in 1984 when President Gemayel tried to clear the shantytowns along the road leading to Beirut Airport), the Muslims attacked the move as "discrimination" by the Christian president against Muslims. Gemayel had to back down, leaving Airport Road to become the most dangerous road in Lebanon, rife with gangs on motorcycles, haphazard illegal construction, killings, kidnappings and blockages of access to the airport.
Now that the executive powers are in the hands of the Muslim Prime Minister and the Muslim Speaker of Parliament, who's doing the "discrimination" you see in the video? Hezbollah thrives on lawlessness, and therefore cannot operate its many unlawful activities inside a normal functioning state under the rule of law. Over the decades since the 1970s, the Lebanese Muslims, backed by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya, Egypt, and other Arab countries, have convinced the world that the Christians of Lebanon were some sort of dictators who oppressed the Muslims in what they called "political Maronitism" at the time, as if the "political Islamism" of both the Shiites and Sunnis on display today is a harmless phenomenon. The reality is that the Christians never engaged in terrorism in contrast with the Muslims. The Christians have been for centuries and to date on the defensive against a permanent campaign by the Muslims to subjugate and tame this last free Christian community in the East into a Dhimmi community. But puritan Western media always back their enemies against their friends as a way to "prove" their impartiality, and the lies perpetrated against the Lebanese Christian community continue to be taken as facts by a credulous and Arab oil-tarnished West.
It is also worth noting that the Muslims of Hezbollah have been trying - just like wealthy European Jews did with Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s and continue to do today - to steal (through illegal registrations in the Land Register), illegally occupy and build (like Israeli settlers in Palestine), or buy via third parties lands owned by Christians in an attempt to infiltrate those areas and change the demographic distribution across the country (recent examples: the village of Lassa in Byblos District, the Hadath town in south Beirut, Rmaysh in the south Lebanon district of Bint Jbail, etc...).
The areas under control of Hezbollah have seen skyrocketing illegal constructions on public and private lands, and these constructions often do not meet any safety specifications, at a time when the government has decided to undertake a survey of buildings about to collapse as a result of the increased seismic activity in the region.
When the government tries to enforce safe construction laws, Hezbollah's mobs attack the police. When an earthquake brings down these illegal settlements, Hezbollah will say that it is poverty and anti-Muslim discrimination that are the cause.
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Follow up report:
The General Directorate of Internal Security - Public Relations Section - has issued the following:
"A video has circulated on the social media showing individuals confronting a patrol of Internal Security officers in the town of Tefahta by throwing rocks and shooting firearms in the air.
After inquiry, the facts are that around 2 pm on March 15, 2023 we received information that bulldozers have made their way to the outskirts of the town of Tefahta in Nabatiyyeh District to plow a 40-dunum (40,000 square meters or about 10 acres) hill of public land with the objective of undertaking construction work. All entrances to the site had been blocked with earth mounds, cars and motorcycles by about 150 individuals divided into groups.
A patrol from the Police Station of the nearby town of Zefta that was dispatched to the area was intercepted by a group of young men, which required reinforcements to be also dispatched. Upon arriving to the site, firearms shots were heard coming from the area of the bulldozers - prior to recording the video in question - and as the police force approached the site, it was met with a barrage of rocks, to which the Station Chief reacted by firing warning shots in the air, and the patrol retreated to avoid casualties among the civilians.
Afterwards, the patrol was reinforced with troops in vehicles and with Lebanese Army troops, and was dispatched at nighttime to the site, which was empty of people, but the patrol was targeted by firearm shots from a distance. The patrol persisted, bypassed the earth obstacles on foot, and proceeded to put a stop to the activities by sealing and disabling the bulldozers in accordance with a warrant. Another Police Report was also filed with regard to the obstruction of the patrol.
Attempts to infringe on public and private property have been persistent in more than one site in the area. The Police is determined to enforce the law, despite the insistence by some on violating the law in the worst possible manners.
We call on the municipalities and its chiefs, as well as the local authorities and political parties, to uphold their national responsibilities and contribute to putting an end to these crimes instead of ignoring them. We are sorry that some Lebanese are exploiting the current situation, and using force to impose a fait accompli. These acts do not build nations, they only destroy them."
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