The harsh sights from Beirut, of corpses and destruction, left Lebanon in shock • Despite the tensions, the finger of blame is not pointed at Israel • Against the background of the difficult economic reality in the country, Hezbollah understands that the internal pressure on them is expected to increase • Interpretation

The harsh photos, videos and testimonies from Beirut left no room for doubt, the explosion that took place in storage complex No. 12 in the port of Beirut in the west of the city is one of the most difficult and deadly incidents known to the Lebanese capital.

The explosion in the port of Beirut

Sooty bodies are lying on the road outside burned vehicles, bloodthirsty wounded screaming for the help of medical and rescue crews running between the arenas in central Beirut and west, absorbing most of the blast from the blast. 

Enormous damage was done to buildings and property. Only this was lacking for the Lebanese who are kneeling under a severe economic crisis in the country and a collapsing and insolvent financial system. The hospitals were filled with wounded and dead and the mayor of Beirut and other Lebanese officials stood in front of the cameras and declared with teary eyes that this was one of the greatest disasters in the history of Beirut after the war and destruction.

Shortly after the explosion at a port that shook the Lebanese capital, the country's media reported that senior Lebanese officials claimed that the explosion was caused as a result of an Israeli attack on the port of Beirut.

This was after an IDF spokesman confirmed the day before that Air Force planes had attacked Syrian army bases in the south of the country in response to the attempted attack on the border fence in the Golan Heights that tried to carry out a liquidated Hezbollah squad. 

The Hezbollah organization was quick to deny the allegations that the explosion in the port of Beirut was caused by deliberate activity and said in response that "reports that the explosion was caused as a result of an Israeli attack are incorrect."  

The Shiite terrorist organization evaded an explicit answer if it was a site where the organization used to store weapons and ammunition, and senior Hezbollah figures were quoted in the Lebanese media as claiming that it was a fuel depot that caught fire and exploded.

It is impossible to hide the fact that arms shipments from Tehran to Hezbollah also pass through the port of Beirut and are stored there. On the other hand, senior Lebanese officials in the Lebanese government admit that a compound that caught fire and exploded in the port of Beirut stored weapons and ammunition and fuel, and the Lebanese government even announced that it was a confiscated ammunition depot that caught fire and exploded. 

Despite all this, Hezbollah also understands that the disaster in Beirut will resurface the issue of the organization's armament in Lebanon, which has sovereign security forces and an army. The explosion in the port of Beirut and its aftermath are likely to raise again the demand among growing sections of the Lebanese public that Hezbollah as a political movement in the country should initiate a move to disarm. 

The explosion in Beirut destroyed the headquarters of the "Dailystar" newspaper

Even before the disaster in Beirut, Lebanese social networks erupted on the question of whether Hezbollah's never-ending armament and its involvement in Syria, Iraq and Yemen in Tehran's service is more beneficial or harmful to Lebanon. The answer is that most Lebanese leave no room for doubt - the Lebanese admit that Hassan Nasrallah is a great Lebanese patriot and as such he should disarm the organization he heads. The catastrophic explosion in the port of Beirut will only increase the demand for the disarmament of Hezbollah.