Israeli attack on Lebanon will ignite new version of 2006 war: Hezbollah
The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has warned that any Israeli act of aggression against the Arab country would ignite an advanced version of the 33-day war fought in the summer of 2006, when the occupying regime suffered a humiliating defeat.
“The Zionist enemy continues to threaten us with military aggression, and we respond by means of steadfastness, resistance, and retaliatory strikes,” Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Monday. “We, hereby, declare that if they commit a foolish act and attack our territories, there would then be a new version of the 2006 July war,” he said at the sixth International Conference for the Union of Resistance Scholars in Beirut.
Sheikh Qassem also cast doubts on Western calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, describing them as theatrical and deceitful.
He underlined that Hezbollah conducts operations against Israeli military outposts in the 1948 occupied territories in retaliation for the bloody aggression against Gazans, out of its humanitarian and religious duties towards the oppressed Palestinian nation.
For his part, Osama Hamdan, a senior representative of Hamas in Lebanon, stated that Arab and Muslim nations are duty-bound to join forces and frustrate the Israeli regime’s policy of intentionally starving Palestinians in Gaza.
“Our people have withstood the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza for the last 150 days through unwavering resilience and unshakable determination. Gaza-based resistance factions conducted Operation Al-Aqsa Storm at the time when the occupying regime was about to liquidate the Palestinian cause and resistance front.”
He stressed that the Axis of Resistance reintroduced the Palestinian issue as the primary concern of the Muslim world, foiled fiendish US plots, and reiterated that it is impossible to coexist with the usurping Tel Aviv regime.