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Alwaght-The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, has warned the Israeli regime against potential military strikes against Lebanon.
Nasrallah said the Israeli regime should not think that Hezbollah is preoccupied with the operations in Syria against terrorist groups, saying a strong response awaits Israel if it attacks Lebanon.
Speaking at the celebration marking the founding of Imam Mahdi Scouts in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Sayyed Nasrallah addressed the Israelis, urging them to realize that they have a defeated army that cannot deter the Resistance capabilities.
"You are admitting in this drill that you have a defeated army by saying fully and in details that the resistance is able to reach all the areas where the exercises are taking place," his eminence said, noting that the enemy leadership and people know this fact very well, stressing that the recent Zionist threats will have no effect on Hezbollah.
"Hezbollah is not preoccupied by the Qalamoun battles. Qalamoun has nothing to do with this matter," he said, urging the Lebanese not to become afraid of these threats.
Sayyed Nasrallah made it clear that the "time in which Israelis destroyed our homes and maintained their homes has ended in 2006," and what is going to happen in the future will be more significant than the July war 2006, threatening the Israelis that Hezbollah will displace their settlers in case the enemy entity imposes a possible war on Lebanon in the future.
"I clearly say to Israel: the Resistance threatens to displace millions of Israelis in the next war if imposed on Lebanon," his eminence warned.
Touching upon Arsal and Qalamoun battles in the border areas between Lebanon and Syria, Sayyed Nasrallah reviewed how the Lebanese domestic politics tackled the security situation in the area, underlying that Hezbollah was clear from the very beginning and didn't say that he will enter the town of Arsal.
"We always used to say that this town [Arsal] has been occupied and its liberation is the responsibility of the Lebanese state and army," Sayyed Nasrallah stated, adding that the Lebanese people "are hopeful that the army would bear this great national responsibility."
"We were very clear regarding Arsal barrens. Here we are standing before a malignant form of political hypocrisy, political disinformation and political recruitment," his eminence said, recalling that  there are people who invented a battle named Arsal and came out to defend it.
"They are assuming that Hezbollah wants to enter to the town of Arsal, but this is untrue and hypocrisy," he stressed, urging those who are resorting to sectarian mobilization to get rid of that action.
As for Arsal barrens, Sayyed Nasrallah stated that the battle occurred early because of the gunmen attack on the posts of Syrian army and the Resistance in Younin barrens "in a direct field attack."
"We are not invaders, but liberators and resistance," Hezbollah secretary General emphasized, highlighting that the battles narrate the victories achieved by the Resistance fighters over tens of kilometers of the liberated lands in the area, praising the solidarity expressed by the families and clans of Baalbek who showed their support for the Resistance and their readiness to sacrtifice.
On the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group, the Hezbollah leader said the group was originally formed in Iraq, and later spread to Syria.
Nasrallah said the ISIL group split from the al-Qaeda terrorist group, which was itself created by the US, Saudi and Pakistani intelligence agencies.
On the Saudi military strikes against Yemen, the Hezbollah leader said that Saudi Arabia does not want anyone to criticize the military aggression against its impoverished neighbor.
He said the stance of Hezbollah has from day one been to condemn the Saudi military strikes against Yemen.
Out of the goals declared by Saudi Arabia in the military aggression against Yemen, Nasrallah said, none were achieved.
“Yes, they killed, they destroyed… criminal gangs can do that; aside from that, none of the declared goals were achieved,” he said.
Saudi Arabia has to end the aggression against and the blockade against Yemen, the Hezbollah leader said.