Alwaght- Deputy Secretary General of the Lebanese resistance movement says the Israeli regime supports terrorists operating in the West Asian region.
“Takfiri terrorism, which is supported by the Israeli terrorism, is the central crisis in the region,” Press TV cited Sheikh Naim Qassem as saying on Thursday.
Israel, which continues to occupy Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms and Syria’s Golan Heights, is widely known for its support for terrorists trying to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
The Tel Aviv regime offers medical help to the Takfiri terrorists who are injured in fighting inside Syria. According to Israel’s Channel 2 television, the number of militants having been treated by Israeli medical staff since 2011 has reached 2,100. In December 2015, British newspaper The Daily Mail said the Israeli regime had saved the lives of more than 2,000 Takfiri militants since 2013.
In August 2014, Jibhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as Nusra Front, and ISIS terrorist groups overran the eastern Lebanese town of Arsal, killing a number of Lebanese forces. They took 30 soldiers hostage, most of whom have been released.
Since then, the army and Hezbollah have been defending Lebanon on the eastern frontier, preventing terrorism in neighboring Syria from spilling over into the country.
Hezbollah fighters have also been assisting Syrian government forces in their own fight against Takfiri terrorists. Back in May, Hezbollah reported that Takfiri terror groups had killed the movement’s top military commander Mustafa Badreddine in Syria.
In his Thursday remarks, Qassem said, “We have determined the risks… and found that we have to count on ourselves [to confront] the two branches of terrorism,” namely Takfiri terrorism and Israeli terrorism. “We have always said that resistance is the solution.”
The Hezbollah official also blamed the United States for not engaging ISIS “in any real confrontation — despite having the capacity [to do so].”
Since 2014, the US and dozens of its allies have been pounding what they say are Daesh targets in Syria and Lebanon without any evidence on the ground that the Takfiri terror group has been meaningfully dislodged.
Qassem said that Takfiris “threaten the Islamist identity, human existence and future generations.”
He added that “Hezbollah has been and remains Lebanon’s pillar for stability, and without it, Lebanon would have vanished in the wind of regional crises.”
Israel has launched two wars on Lebanon — one in 2000 and another 2006. About 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians, lost their lives during the 33-day war in the summer of 2006. Hezbollah is credited with driving Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon in the 2006 war.
