Report: Hizbullah's Involvement in Regional Conflicts 'Has Not Distracted it from Israel'
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The tensions that erupted between Hizbullah and Israel on Monday will not lead to a major conflict between the two sides, assured security sources to al-Joumhouria newspaper on Tuesday.
Sources close to the party added however that “once Hizbullah vows that it will retaliate to an Israeli assault, then it will fulfill it.”
“The party's involvement in Syria, its open confrontation with Saudi Arabia, and its military battle with takfiris along the border have not distracted it from its constant open front with Israel,” they stressed.
“The resistance would not have targeted Israel without knowing in advance what repercussions that operation would incur,” they added.
The security sources meanwhile emphasized that the “international conditions will not allow a major security violation” to occur between Lebanon and Israel.
“What happened on Monday is limited to a quick and limited response” to Israel's assassination of prominent Hizbullah member Samir al-Quntar in December, they explained to al-Joumhouria.
“The Shebaa operation should not be blown out of proportion,” they urged,
“The situation is therefore under control and the tensions will not increase, which has been demonstrated by the calm that has pervaded the area,” they noted.
Hizbullah targeted an Israeli patrol in the occupied Shebaa Farms with an explosive device on Monday, prompting Israel to shell areas in southern Lebanon.
The operation was a response to the assassination of al-Quntar, who was killed in an airstrike in Syria blamed on Israel.
Israel retaliated on Monday by opening artillery fire on areas in southern Lebanon.
The Shebaa Farms have been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Middle East war. Lebanon says the area is Lebanese territory, while the United Nations says it was annexed from Syria.
Hizbullah has an extensive presence in Syria, where it is mostly working to bolster the regime against an uprising that began in March 2011.
Hizbullah and Israel scuffle intermittently in the disputed border area between Lebanon and Israel, and the powerful Lebanese group has in the past targeted Israeli army patrols in response to strikes against its members.
In January last year, it claimed an attack in the Shebaa Farms against an army patrol in apparent revenge for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed six Hizbullah fighters and a member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
In 2006, Israel fought a devastating war against Hizbullah that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and some 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
M.T.
D.A.
05 January 2016, 09:17
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What kind of retaliation are hezbstakhfarallah talking about and are proud of? They plantet a road side bomb and did No damage? Was this the big surprice Hassan the hidden rat was talking about? Embaressing
05 January 2016, 10:53
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This operation had one aim: face-saving towards its public.
And you know what? It will work knowing the level of intellect of its supporters.
05 January 2016, 12:12
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i wouldn't consider the kuntar case closed if i were you, this minor operation came as a warning after 4 days of shelling by israel
http://fr.timesofisrael.com/4e-jour-de-bombardement-sur-le-liban-par-larmee-israelienne/
when kuntar will be avenged you'll all know it, don't worry.
05 January 2016, 12:39
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Shu ya non-mowaten?
As if you are member of the superior-strategic-decision-committee of "war- when and how"...
No wonder why your loyalty goes to outside Lebanon...
05 January 2016, 12:42
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However, your bosses declared to UNIFIL that it was the revenge act and that the matter was closed...
Maybe you have direct info and orders from outside Lebanon...
05 January 2016, 13:35
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Which country are you a mowaten of? Iran, Syria, Pakistan.... Certainly not Lebanon!
05 January 2016, 14:14
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mowaten, do you have a life other than spamming naharnet 24/7 with your irani propaganda?
05 January 2016, 19:28
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Takfiris are being supported and treated and armed by Israel to create schim between Muslims on account of difference ask any sunni in Syria they are all tired of what Isis has done. Israel is illegitimate child of america which is arming it to the teeth. Let america withdraw h its support israel will collapse.
05 January 2016, 10:09
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When the Sayyed says something he will deliver. Case in point was the magnificent planting of a roadside bomb yesterday that shattered a few rocks and caused a dust storm. The sayyed cares about Palestine and the oppressed like those executed daily in Iran.
05 January 2016, 13:33
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Excellent analysis based on facts and reliable sources. Your ability to analyze current events and mix it with art and culture is to be commended. Please, never change.
05 January 2016, 14:17
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assad regime is an oppressive regime...... your "human rights activist" said so too...
and your arguments are stupid southern... sorry... it all started by popular protests against assad... but you deny it to justify your beloved regime crimes against humanity....
05 January 2016, 14:21
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Despite Ceasefire, Syrians Starve in Besieged Town
"Some 40,000 people, mostly civilians, are believed to be in the town in Damascus province, many of them displaced from the neighboring rebel stronghold of Zabadani."
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/198658-despite-ceasefire-syrians-starve-in-besieged-town
05 January 2016, 14:24
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the goal of assad and hezbis is to empty all sunni villages from the border and around damascus to replace them with shias so the regime is in a safe zone... ethnical cleansing it is called when hezbis pretend to be not sectarians! LOL
05 January 2016, 16:28
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Israel is an enemy, but the No 1 enemy is the Butcher and his allies which are the "enemy from within"!!!
05 January 2016, 16:25
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All invadors of Lebanon end up in Nahr El Kalb Memorial....Ebola is losing ground and is in its downfall since losing about 1/4th of its fighters...and achieved almost nothing apart from adjourning the demise of the Butcher for a couple of years.
The big shame is for our Shi3a brothers who will end up in a place where there won't be anymore a National Unity.
They ought to think about it before it happens.
05 January 2016, 16:27
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Israel is an enemy, but the No 1 enemy is the Butcher and his allies which are the "enemy from within"!!!
05 January 2016, 22:01
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No, of course not, Hizb's left and right mass-murder of civilians in Syria - along with a couple of Takfiris here and there - has not distracted it enough from wounding a few Israeli soldiers. Here's a tip to Hizb: Get your wives to strip naked and dance along the Blue Line, it will give the Israeli soldiers blue balls that will hurt them a lot more than your little firework.
05 January 2016, 22:09
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"Labayka Ya Nasralla - you promise and you deliver".
He promised us victory in 2006 when he declared an open war; three-quarters of the Jnoub, half of Dahyeh, and a lot of other areas were reduced to rubble, over 1,200 Lebanese civilians were killed, and the reparations that Iran "vowed" to give unto those still alive but who had lost their houses and work-places in the war ("Israel tudammir; Iran tu3ammir; shukran li Iran!") are still unpaid nearly a decade on (my dad lost his medical clinic in Ghobeyri and still hasn't received a lira in reparation). Hizb should just go back to Iran and stop disgracing the honourable Shia of Lebanon...
05 January 2016, 22:18
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@H.I.S.: Do you think that "freedom and democracy" is calling people by animal names on discussion forums like this? Dude, we're all angry and on nerve's edge at the moment, but I hardly think that upping the ante is going to do anybody much good. Take a deep breath and try to find solutions, not add fuel to fire.
