Sheikh Naim Qassem:

Hezbollah’s Qalamoun battle is coming

Rasa - Hezbollah and the Syrian army’s battle against Islamist militants in the Qalamoun region on Lebanon’s eastern borders is approaching, Hezbollah’s deputy chief announced Tuesday.

News ID: 2463

Date: 06 May 2015 - 14:00

RNA - “In any case, the Qalamoun battle is coming, and it has already stuck its neck out, proving once again that the Takfiris are unable to expand as they wish,” the Beirut-based English-language newspaper Daily Star quoted Qassem as saying.

According to security sources, Syrian army forces along with Hezbollah fighters are preparing for a battle to gain full control of the eastern Lebanon mountain range. Reports also say that the military arrangements for the battle for the eastern mountain range near the border with Syria have almost finished.

The sources said that the Syrian army has brought a number of rocket launchers, artillery batteries and cannons and has deployed them in strategic areas and hills in the Syrian town of Zabadani, close to the border with Lebanon.

“This battle is the battle of protecting Lebanese villages and prevents Takfiris from expanding and achieving their goals,” the senior Hezbollah official said.

Syria has been grappling with a deadly crisis since March 2011. The violence fueled by Takfiri groups has so far claimed the lives of over 222,000 people, according to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says over 7.2 million people have been internally displaced, and more than 3 million fled the country.

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General also asserted that what is going on in Yemen is an oppressing US-Saudi aggression which has surpassed the humanitarian and the legal limits and identifies with criminality and  brutality.

Condemning the regional and the international silence, Sheikh Qassem added that as the UN Security Council rejected to approve a ceasefire in Yemen, it asserted its support to the Saudi-led aggression and displayed its criminal nature.

"What is the difference between Saudi and ISIL?" his eminence wondered, noting that both of them kill the Arabs and the Muslims and do not fight the enemies.

Sheikh Qassem pointed out that Hezbollah has always called on finding a political solution for the Yemeni crisis and that the current measures will exacerbate the situation in Yemen and all the Gulf countries, including mainly Saudi Arabia.

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