Hezbollah's Loyalty to the Resistance bloc Thursday said the Gulf Cooperation Council's decision earlier this month to label the group as a "terrorist organization" was an indicator of Saudi Arabia's deteriorating political and economic situation. "The Saudi regime's aggressive actions against our people in Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, its scandalous interventions in the internal affairs of these countries and other states and its use of terrorism to break up the region, is enough proof to show its struggle and bankruptcy," MP Hasan Fadlallah said in a press conference after the bloc's weekly meeting. The latest remarks come amid escalatory measures against Hezbollah and its supporters by the Gulf States. On March 2, the GCC designated the party as a "terrorist organization," warning their residents against showing any sort of "sympathy" for or support toward Hezbollah. Bahrain recently decided to deport a number of Lebanese for that reason. "The Saudi regime's classification of Hezbollah as a terrorist group is one of (the regime's) silliest inventions, in order to cover up and justify Israeli aggression against Lebanon," Fadlallah continued. The bloc also condemned the recent "Saudi massacre" in Yemen, where 119 people were killed in an airstrike on a market. Saudi Arabia has led a war against the war-torn nation's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels since last year. The bloc also denounced the Ivory Coast attack and the bombing that shook the Turkish capital of Ankara over the past week. One Lebanese was among those killed in the Al-Qaeda-claimed attack on the Ivorian resort town of Grand Bassam, east of the commercial capital Abidjan. Turning to other local issues, the bloc called for the adoption of a new electoral law to be used in the country's legislative polls. It voiced support for a proportional representation system with Lebanon as one constituency to replace the current 1960s majority-takes-all system. It also called for the swift implementation of a recent Cabinet plan to remove accumulated trash from the streets of Greater Beirut and parts of Mount Lebanon, and to establish landfills agreed upon by ministers. The Cabinet Saturday approved to set up two landfills near Beirut and reopen the infamous Naameh landfill as a "temporary" plan to end the country's chronic eight-month waste crisis.
