With the fall of two rockets (a third failed to launch due to a malfunction) last week on the Shiite-majority Chiyyah neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon has entered a new phase of rising tension that threatens to import the conflict in Syria between Jabhat al-Nusra and the Syrian opposition on the one hand and Hezbollah on the other.
The rockets were fired from Bsaba in Mount Lebanon toward Chiyyah, an Amal and Hezbollah stronghold.