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Sophia – A Bulgarian court on Monday convicted two Hezbollah operatives accused of participating in the 2012 Israeli bus bombing in Bulgaria.
Judge Adelina Ivanova sentenced the two men, who fled Bulgaria and are being tried in absentia, to “life imprisonment without the possibility of parole” in the case of the attack that killed five Israeli tourists, including a pregnant woman. of the murder of a Bulgarian driver and the person carrying explosives and injured 35 people. .
The bus was transporting tourists to the airport of Burgas, a seaside resort on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.
The Bulgarian court sentenced 39-year-old Milad Farah from Lebanon and 32-year-old Lebanese Canadian Hassan Hajj Hassan for their role in the terrorist attack on July 18, 2012.
The Bulgarian judiciary had cited conclusive evidence of the suspects’ association with Hezbollah, as Hassan Nasrallah’s group provided them with logistical and financial support, according to the US magazine ‘Newsweek’.
The magazine’s report claimed that the defendants used ammonium nitrate in the terrorist operation, indicating that Hezbollah has a history of using this substance to carry out various terrorist operations in different regions, recently citing the archive of the Shiite group involvement in storage of large quantities of rapidly explosive ammonium nitrate in port. What caused the terrible disaster of August 4, which killed 190 people, injured more than 6,500 and cast a shadow on the wounds of the country mired in economic collapse.
This case, which once again lifts the record of Hezbollah’s use of ammonium nitrate, opens our eyes to review and monitor the terrorist activities of the group’s members in various regions of the world and in Lebanon.
As reported by the ‘Al Arabiya’ channel, the investigations confirmed that the materials used in the attack on the Israeli bus in Bulgaria are bombs stored by the planners of the operation in Cyprus and consist mainly of ammonium nitrate, which is the same material. used by Hezbollah militants in the 1994 attack in Argentina that killed 85 lives.
And Hezbollah has been in an ongoing conflict with Israel for decades, with clashes occurring frequently between the two sides on the Israeli-Lebanese border, and the attack on the Israeli bus in Bulgaria was considered the deadliest attack on Israelis abroad since. 2004.
The Bulgarian and Israeli authorities held Hezbollah responsible for the attack at the time and played an important role in the decision of the European Union, after the attack, to classify the military wing of the Shiite group on the list of “terrorist” organizations.
