The Gulf Cooperation Council has condemned the car bombing that ripped through a stronghold of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement in Beirut, killing at least 22 people.
“This criminal and disgraceful act is an attack on Lebanon’s security and stability,” GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif Al-Zayani said in a statement.
Thursday’s bombing at the heart of the densely populated southern suburbs of Beirut also targets “Lebanon’s peaceful cohabitation, through sowing sedition” among its various confessions, he said.
The bloc imposed sanctions on Hezbollah in June over its military support for the Syrian regime against the mainly-Sunni rebels.
Zayani urged the Lebanese factions “not to give room to vandals, advocates of sedition and terrorists.”
He said the GCC stands by Lebanon’s side “against all that threatens its stability,” offering condolences to the families of the dead.
A previously unknown group said it carried out the attack, which also wounded 325 people.
GCC condemns deadly Beirut bombing
GCC condemns deadly Beirut bombing
