On the anniversary of the May 17 Agreement, the Amal Movement sent “a tribute of pride and appreciation to the enormous sacrifices and national, popular, political and militant wills that came together and integrated on this day 43 years ago in rejection, resistance and uprising of the attempts to overthrow Lebanon, the nation, the state and the human being, and to cut it off from its Arab surroundings and turn it into a dagger that stabs the nation in its unity, security and independence under the weight and influence of the Israeli invasion.” Who then brought down the second Arab capital after Jerusalem, Beirut, which stood firm and resisted, and Lebanon won with its victory.” She said in a statement: “The anniversary of that ill-fated agreement coincides this year with an Israeli war of aggression against Lebanon and the Lebanese in general, and the people of the south, the Bekaa, and the southern suburbs of Beirut in particular. As is no longer a secret to anyone, it is a war whose goals are nothing but an open Israeli attempt, with the same aggressive tools and facts, to violate Lebanon’s sovereignty and land, systematically kill its people and children, and destroy its health and emergency facilities.” Educational and religious issues, and the forced displacement of a third of Lebanon’s population, not to mention the targeting of media professionals, all in order to reproduce what they were unable to achieve in the June 1982 invasion and re-impose what the Lebanese patriots rejected and dropped in the May 17 agreement and the dictates it included, infringement on national sovereignty and dignity, and the erasure of its Arab identity.” The movement renewed its call on the Lebanese and all political forces and national and spiritual authorities to “remember all the headlines that enabled them to thwart all the goals in all the wars of Israeli aggression, which today, as it was in the past, is a war that does not target a group, sect, party, or movement, but rather targets Lebanon, the model, role, and message. It is also an occasion for the necessity of being vigilant and alert to the dangers of falling into the clutches of internal strife from which only the Israeli enemy benefits, and also, before anything else, the necessity of adhering to and not abandoning any Among the national constants, foremost among which is the immediate cessation of the Israeli aggression, the complete withdrawal from all the lands occupied by Israel, the unconditional return of our people to their villages, and the approval of an urgent government program for reconstruction and the release of prisoners.” The statement concluded: “Our unity is our path to salvation and victory in the face of aggression and in preserving Lebanon as a homeland for all its people.”