Hizbullah's Charity Wins Hearts
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Hizbullah, established in 1982, offers extensive civil services
in the fields of research, health, education, social welfare, and the media.
CAIRO - Invisible at the battlefield, Hizbullah members are
omnipresent in people's lives, covering medical bills, offering health
insurance, paying school fees and making seed money available for small
businesses, The New York Times reported on Sunday, August 6.
With a salary far lower than average, Ahmed Awali, a 41-year-old
security guard, could not afford the $1,500 needed for his wife to deliver
their baby.
But thanks to the health insurance system introduced by Hizbullah to
help the needy for a meager $10 a month, he rejoiced with relatives at the
birth of his second daughter.
Unidentified Hizbullah members even visited him with bags of
groceries.
"They just put it down in the middle of the room and left," said his
wife Yusra Haidar.
Hizbullah's medical insurance card is acceptable in any hospital
across Lebanon.
Hizbullah has also saved Haidar Fayadh, a café owner, from insolvency
and frustration after an "unfair" electricity bill amounting to thousands of
dollars.
"Hizbullah intervened for me to get the price down," he said, fiddling
with his empty plastic cup.
Hizbullah, established in 1982 to help liberate Lebanon from Israeli
occupation, offers extensive civil services in the fields of research,
health, education, social welfare, and the media.
Hizbullah is also an active participant in Lebanese politics, with 23
seats in the 128-seat legislature.
It has one minister in the cabinet, Energy and Water Minister Mohammad
Fneish, and it endorses Labor Minister Tarrad Hamadeh.
"Hizbullah is People"
Locals told the American daily that Hizbullah members are lay people,
who take up arms when necessary.
"Just because I'm sitting here in this café doesn't mean I'm not a
resistance fighter," said Fayadh.
"Everyone has a weapon in his house," he said, sitting near pictures
of Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
"There are doctors, teachers and farmers. Hizbullah is people. People
are Hizbullah."
Issam Jouhair, a car mechanic, put it figuratively.
"The trees in the south say, 'We are Hizbullah.' The stones say, 'We
are Hizbullah'.. If the people cannot talk, the stones will say it," he said
emphatically.
Hizbullah fighters are a part of the population, and identifying them
can be close to impossible.
"They are ghosts," said a man who identified himself as Husam. "Nobody
knows them."
Several residents who knew Hizbullah members said they get training
for up to five years before becoming full-fledged members.
The military wing is so secretive that sometimes friends and family
members do not know a loved one is a part of it.
A man was passing by in a suburb of Tyre in the south with a hand-held
radio.
Locals say that he is the security chief of Hizbullah in the
neighborhood.
He refused to identify himself. When asked about Hizbullah in the
area, he replied, "Hizbullah is us, from the smallest child to the oldest
man."
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