Displaced Hezbollah supporters’ mixed feelings about Iran attackpublished at 20:01 British Summer Time
Nafiseh Kohnavard
BBC Persian Middle East correspondent, in Beirut
Bell and Mohammed at the shelter
“I liked what Iran did, but I was waiting for it since the beginning the war. Not now,” says Bell, a 32-year-old Lebanese lawyer.
I met her at a school that’s sheltering hundreds of people who fled from southern Lebanon and Dahieh, a suburb in the south of Beirut.
Bell had to leave her house in Haret Hreik, in Dahieh – an area that has been heavily bombed over the past few days.
“I think it is too late. We still can’t believe we have lost Seyyed Hasan,” she says.
Bell is talking about Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last Friday.
She tells me she feels “happy”, regardless.
And her uncle, Mohammad, says he is “proud of Iran”.
In the school at night, everyone is watching the news about developments following Iran’s attack on their phones.
Clearly, there are a mixed feelings here about Iran’s action.
“I will be happy when I see its actual results. If it is like their attack in April, it will mean nothing to us.
“A few ditches in some military bases without killing Israeli commanders or top leaders will be meaningless,” Abu Ahmad tells me.
He also fled Dahieh, and says he and his brother’s house were badly damaged in airstrikes.
