(25 Jul 2025)
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Qabayat, North Lebanon, Lebanon – 25 July 2025
1. Wide of Lebanese pro-Palestinian militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah emerging from car
2. Wide of people cheering and clapping for Abdallah
3. Close of Abdallah kissing his bother
4. Various of crowds celebrating Abdullah’s return in street
5. Various of crowds indoors celebrating Abdullah’s return
6. Mid Abdullah greeting people
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, pro-Palestinian militant:
“Lebanon is facing a very difficult phase, as is the entire region. Our young men and women should take the lead in confronting all the conspiracies being plotted, and this is not a passing expression, for we are witnessing it all around us in our surrounding region."
8. Mid of security
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, pro-Palestinian militant:
“We address our Lebanese people. In all their sects, professions, denominations, and political parties, to stand against the Zionist regression and against all the enemies of Lebanon. Through the blood of its martyrs, the nation is capable of building an army able to confront all dangers."
10. Various of people greeting Abdallah
STORYLINE:
Crowds of chanting well-wishers gathered in the street on Friday to welcome the return of a Lebanese pro-Palestinian militant following his release after more than 40 years in detention in France.
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 74, was serving a life sentence for complicity in the murders of two diplomats, one American and one Israeli, in Paris in 1982.
The Paris Court of Appeal ruled last week that Abdallah, who has been imprisoned in France since his arrest in 1984, could be released on the condition that he leave the country and never return.
Abdallah was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for complicity in the assassinations of U.S. Army Lt. Col. Charles Ray, who was stationed in Paris as an assistant military attaché, and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov.
He became eligible for parole in 1999 but multiple requests he filed since then were denied.
The U.S. Embassy in Paris posted a photo on X of staffers standing, heads bowed in remembrance, around a memorial plaque at the mission for Ray.
“The United States opposes the release of convicted terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah,” the post said.
“His release not only endangers the safety of U.S. diplomats abroad, but also betrays the memory of the victims and their families.”
AP video by Fadi Tawil
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