Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says the plot hatched by the US, Israel and the ISIL Takfiri militants in Syria has failed. Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said in a Monday interview with Lebanon’s Al-Manar television that the ISIL Takfiri terrorists infiltrated into Syria with the help of the US and some countries in the region.
He stressed that the US-Israel-ISIL plan in Syria has come to naught.
Referring to the ties between Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Qassem said that the ‘needle of the Hezbollah compass has always pointed and will always point to Israel.’
Over the past months, the Syrian army, backed by Hezbollah resistance fighters, has managed to make major gains in its fight against foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists that have been operating to inside Syria roughly since March 2011.
In May, Qassem described Israel as the Lebanese movement’s “main enemy” and said armed resistance was proven to be the right way to confront the Tel Aviv regime.
Sheikh Qassem further pointed to Hezbollah’s fight against the extremist militants in Syria, noting, “Our confrontation with Takfiri groups derives from the direct danger they (the militants) represent, and it does not affect our readiness to confront Israel.”
In March, Hezbollah’s Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said Takfiri militants would have eliminated all the people of Lebanon if the fighters of the resistance movement had not gone to war in Syria.
He also said on July 21 that Hezbollah would stand by the Palestinians against the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, which started on July 8.
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