Ammar Musawi, Hezbollah’s official in charge of international relations, warned that the EU’s decision to blacklist the group’s military wing “will have repercussions.” He also said the group’s political and military aspects are inseparable. Residents of south Lebanon laughed off the EU’s recent move. A Palestinian who served as personal bodyguard to fugitive Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmad Assir was arrested as he tried to board a flight for Egypt.
