NNA - Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, on Monday marked the twentieth anniversary of journalist Samir Kassir’s assassination with a tribute on the X platform, stating:

“On this day twenty years ago, they succeeded in assassinating the body of Samir Kassir, but his word lived on. Today, I recall Samir’s voice, thought, and pen — he who carried the cause of freedom and democracy in the face of tyranny and tutelage, and who wrote with the courage of one who knew that the truth brooks no compromise.”

Salam added: “On your anniversary, I tell you: your words in The History of Beirut and its people still guard our city. The jasmine of Damascus has bloomed again. And Palestine, which you loved, continues to bleed from Gaza to Jenin. Yet hope grows every day through the hundreds of thousands raising her flag across world capitals.”

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