BEIRUT, Lebanon — A video published by a Lebanese TV outlet caricaturing Hezbollah’s leaders and fighters as characters from the “Angry Birds” mobile phone games drew a rebuke from the terror group, which called the clip “offensive” on Saturday.

On social media, Hezbollah’s supporters condemned what they considered the ridiculing of leader Naim Qassem, who is also a Shia cleric, with some reacting by sharing images insulting Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai, the highest Christian authority in Lebanon.

The video, shared by the LBCI channel on Friday, depicts Qassem addressing his fighters — with all of them depicted as birds from the popular video games — as they fight the Israeli army, portrayed as the series’ green pigs.

Hezbollah said in a statement that the video contained “offensive and cheap insults that degrade political discourse to a repulsive level.”

The terror group also called on supporters not to be “drawn into” the controversy “orchestrated by the enemies of the resistance.”

LBCI was founded in the 1980s by the Lebanese Forces, a Christian party opposed to Hezbollah.

بين الغضب والمكر، يشتعل الصراع#LBCINews @BBchannellb pic.twitter.com/W2K0OTi1oY — LBCI Lebanon News (@LBCI_NEWS) May 1, 2026

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