Top Hezbollah Official:

Hezbollah protecting Lebanon against ISIL

Rasa – A senior Hezbollah official says the Lebanese resistance movement is protecting Lebanon against the Takfiri ISIL terrorists, who are actively operating in neighboring Syria.

News ID: 2646

Date: 02 June 2015 - 17:58

RNA – “Had it not been for Hezbollah’s Syria fight, ISIL would have reached Beirut (Lebanon’s capital),” Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Shaykh Na’im Qassem said on Monday, according to Press TV.

He also referred to Hezbollah’s fight against the terrorists in the Qalamoun border region, saying the battle aims to bring an end the bloodshed caused by terrorist car bomb attacks in Lebanon’s border areas.

On May 4, Hezbollah fighters and the Syrian army launched joint operations to push back terrorists from the strategic region of Qalamoun. On May 26, Hezbollah fighters captured the al-Qubaa and al-Naffar hills in Qalamoun.

Qassem said Hezbollah will embark on a second round of large-scale operations against the terrorists in Qalamoun, but did not specify when the operations will begin.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the senior Hezbollah official said that the US-led coalition purportedly fighting ISIL does not aim to eradicate the terrorist group, as the Americans “want for this terrorism to last in a bid to serve their scheme.”

Washington and some of its Western and regional allies have been  conducting air raids against purported ISIL positions in Iraq since August 2014. Some members of the US-led coalition have also been bombarding what they say are ISIL positions inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate since last September.

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