Around 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15, a car bomb rocked the Ruwais area in Beirut’s southern suburbs about 200 meters [220 yards] from the Sayyed al-Shuhada’ complex, where most of Hezbollah’s political and religious celebrations are held. Although a Syrian Sunni opposition fundamentalist group claimed responsibility for the attack, Lebanese sources told Al-Monitor that they don’t rule out the involvement of Israeli intelligence in the bombing.
About a week ago, a source close to Hezbollah told Al-Monitor that the person accused of carrying out the Majdal Anjar-Masnaa explosion in the Bekaa Valley on July 16 admitted during interrogation that he had outfitted bombs on a number of cars that were intended to be detonated in pro-Hezbollah areas, but that he doesn’t know who received those cars or where they are now.