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Three days of clashes between Hezbollah and the U.S.-backed Lebanese government highlight on-going tensions in a country that has functioned for the past five months without a head of state. As of this morning, the Shia movement of Hezbollah has seized control of downtown Beirut neighborhoods usually patrolled by Sunnis loyal to the government. So far 11 people have been killed and dozens injured. The clashes were sparked by the Lebanese government’s disruption of Hezbollah’s telecommunications network. Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, speaking at a news conference yesterday said that the move was a “declaration of war … against the resistance and its weapons, for the benefit of America and Israel.” Nasrallah added that the only way out for the government was to rescind its decisions and attend talks with Hezbollah to try to address the conflict. Yesterday roads leading to the airport were blocked effectively grounding planes, while tensions continued in areas of central and south Beirut, where Sunni and Shia communities overlap. Gunmen have been firing rifles and rocket-propelled grenades in the capital Beirut. The fighting is seen as the worst internal conflict since the 15 year civil war ended in 1990. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program GUEST: Rami El Amine, founding member of SUSTAIN (Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now), Lebanese American with family members still in Lebanon Three days of clashes between Hezbollah and the U.S.-backed Lebanese government highlight on-going tensions in a country that has functioned for the past five months without a head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Hezbollah\"](\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/afp\/20080509\/capt.cps.nda32.090508170814.photo03.photo.default-512x365.jpg?x=400&y=284&sig=TQEzzjIUywzXQVtQuej.Jw--\")
GUEST: Rami El Amine, founding member of SUSTAIN (Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now), Lebanese American with family members still in Lebanon<\/em><\/p>\n