21-02-2025
Despite Provocations, Sayyed Nasrallah's Photo Raised in Beirut Int'l Airport
The video showing a Lebanese women refusing to put away the photo of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah at Beirut International Airport went viral on Thursday.
Asmaa Bzeih, a Lebanese journalist, was subjected to provocations by two security forces and anti-resistance citizens at the airport. The security forces demanded that Bzeih remove the photo of Sayyed Nasrallah or leave the premises.
Beiruts airport has become an Israeli vessel. The government is afraid of Iranian flights, Israeli threats and now pictures of the man whose missiles defended the airport for the last 18 years.
A security officer in the airport tells a young woman either remove that picture (of…
— Jawad (@levantupdates) February 20, 2025
She was filmed as insisting to hold the photo and responding to the security forces by saying that 'this is our country,' referring to the late leader whose funeral is to be held on Sunday.
'This is our country, and whoever has a problem [with the picture] can leave. This is the true Lebanon, not that one which is dictated by the Israeli enemy,' the young woman said.
In an interview with UNews on Friday, Bzeih revealed that she was harassed by the security forces who also requested her relative to delete the filmed video.
She was among the Lebanese nationals who were stranded in Iran over Israeli threats to target the airport if the Iranian plane carrying them would land in the facility last week.
On Thursday, she returned to Lebanon, via Iraq, after the Lebanese government went ahead with a decision to prevent the Iranian planes from landing in Beirut International Airport.
