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Quite a change in rhetoric for Hariri, eight years ago he blamed all bombings on Assad and Syria intelligence.

Hariri blames Israel for Beirut suburb bombing

BEIRUT (Daily Star) July 9, 2013 – Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri blamed Israel Tuesday for the “terrorist explosion” that rocked Beirut’s southern suburbs and accused the country of trying to provoke Sunni-Shiite strife in Lebanon.

The former PM, who heads the Future Movement, urged an investigation into the blast and called on political leaders to shoulder responsibility in addressing the country’s deteriorating security situation.


Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon described the bombing in the Lebanese capital as a struggle between Sunnis and Shiites.

“There are many explosions in the area. Our borders are calm and that’s not a given,” Ya’alon said according to Israel’s YnetNews . “We see war seeping from Syria to Lebanon, and we follow what happens in Tripoli and Beirut. We watch but we don’t interfere.”

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