Fathallah barracks

The Fathallah barracks were the early headquarters of the Hezbollah organisation, situated in the Basta neighbourhood of West Beirut. On February 25th 1987 it was attacked by Syria in retaliation of a previous clash between Hizbollah guards of Fathallah barracks and a patrol for the Lebanese branch of the pro-Syrian Baath party affiliated with the Syrian regime party Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. Hezbollah condemned the attack as an "unjustifiable massacre" and called for the prosecution of the Syrian troops involved, but did not call for revenge attacks. Hezbollah's headquarters were later moved to secret locations in Dahieh, a suburb of Beirut.