Seyed Hassan Nasrallah:

ISIS may destroy Ka'ba one day

Rasa - Hezbollah chief said: “The only people threatening the Holy Mosques are students of the Wahhabi schools in Saudi Arabia and ISIS, one day a suicide bomber from this school will make an operation there, because they consider that the Kaaba is just a pile of stones being worshipped rather than Allah."

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Date: 18 April 2015 - 15:03

RNA - In a statement delivered by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah in a ceremony held in Sayyed Al-Shuhadaa complex, he refuted claims that the attack on Yemen “was for defending Yemen's Arabism".

He rather asked: "Did the Arab people authorize the Saudi regime to wage war on Yemen? Moreover, If the Yemeni people were not Arab than who is?"

"The Yemenis don't need to give evidence that they are Arabs,” he said, “before Islam they were the original Arab culture, when people of the Arabian Peninsula didn't even know how to read.”

Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out that "one of the funniest headlines I have read in the past couple of weeks was "In defense of the Holy Mosques in Mecca and Medina"."

"Who is threatening the two Holy Mosques? The Yemeni people? The Yemeni Army?" he asked, adding: "These are the people who mostly love the prophet and his household.”

“The only people threatening the Holy Mosques are students of the Wahhabi schools in Saudi Arabia and ISIS, one day a suicide bomber from this school will make an operation there, because they consider that the Kaaba is just a pile of stones being worshipped rather than Allah," he said.

Moreover, he called upon Pakistan and Egypt to put an end to the destruction of an Arab and Islamic country, and demanded the intervention of all the Arab and Islamic countries to stop this war and save Yemen from this intended catastrophe.

On another hand, Sayyed Nasrallah indicated that "some people in Lebanon consider that criticizing Saudi Arabia is an insult. I tell them that even though we have always been aware of the Saudi role in the Lebanese civil war, in the Syrian crisis, and its direct intervention in Bahrain, we have always called for dialogue, but today Saudi has declared war... and it is time for the entire Arab and Islamic world to stand up for Saudi Arabia and demand it to stop!"

His eminence emphasized that "the biggest loser from the latest developments in the region is Palestine, and the biggest winner is Israel and Netanyahu."

In conclusion, Sayyed Nasrallah addressed the Lebanese saying: "Some in Lebanon are wagering on Yemen's defeat in the face of this assault, and are drawing their future based on that. I remind them that they have previously wagered on the fall of the Syrian regime, and here it is still firm five years later. I further assure to them that we must not transmit the incidents of Yemen to Lebanon, and rather express our opposite opinions in the appropriate way."

Saudi Arabia’s air campaign against Yemen started on March 26, without a United Nations mandate in a bid to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.

The attacks were also meant to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which took control of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, in September 2014.

The Houthis, now part of popular committees across the country, criticized Hadi government’s inability to properly run the affairs of the country and contain the growing wave of corruption and terror before taking over state matters.

According to reports, over 2,600 people, including women and children, have so far lost their lives in the attacks.

The humanitarian situation in Yemen is rapidly deteriorating as Yemenis are facing a shortage of essential foodstuff, water, fuel and vital drugs.

International humanitarian agencies expect tens of thousands more to flee Yemen in the coming months amid the worsening humanitarian situation.

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