The countries of the Gulf Sunni Muslims , under the leadership of the regional power Saudi Arabia, have supported the Syrian rebels with money and weapons in the fight to overthrow Bashar al -Assad ally Iran. Hezbollah , established in 1980 to fight the Israeli occupation forces in southern Lebanon , sent their fighters to fight alongside the army in the civil war in Syria.

Syria's conflict has been going on incessantly and it's the same for the repercussions for the area. Lebanon, a country considered a natural extension of Syria for countless factors, has been the scene of clashes increasingly characterized by a high coefficient of violence and intensity. On 26 May, two rockets hit the suburb of Shiyyah in Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold in the south of the city. The attack led to the wounding of four people, in addition to damage to some residential properties.