BEIRUT: Although met with a relatively calm reaction from Hezbollah, Israel’s deadly strike on the party’s convoy in the Golan Heights sparked a fierce campaign against the Jewish state on social media Monday.
“#Prepare_your_bomb_shelters,” was the most trending hashtag in Lebanon on Monday evening, with tens of thousands of tweets and millions of accounts reached.
The expression, written in Arabic as “#Jahhizou_Malaji’akoum,” was first used by a Lebanese Twitter account that launched the campaign in support of Hezbollah in response to the Israeli army’s strike on a party convoy in the Syrian town of Qunaitra Sunday.
The strikes killed six party members, two Syrian nationals affiliated with Hezbollah and one senior Iranian military commander.
The social media campaign was used by many to vent their frustrations over the provocative Israeli move, which comes in the wake of reports questioning the relationship between Israel and fundamentalist groups fighting in Syria, particularly the Golan Heights, part of which Israel occupies.
Many users accompanied their tweets with a Hebrew translation of the expression in order for the message to reach deeper into the Israeli Twittersphere.
Posts included pictures of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, statements calling for retaliation, and promises of revenge against Israel.
Although there was no immediate response to the attack, Nasrallah had warned in an interview last Thursday that his party had a right to respond to any Israeli strike or violation, be it on Lebanese or Syrian soil.
Those killed in the strike include Jihad Mughnieh, the son of late Hezbollah commander Imad Mughnieh, and Mohammad Issa, a field commander known by his nom-de-guerre Abou Issa.
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