Hezbollah Official:

Saudis Seeking to Appease Israel by Refusing to Back Resistance

Rasa - Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement’s second-in-command, Sheikh Naim Qassem, slammed the Saudi regime’s stance against the resistance movement and said Riyadh is trying to appease Tel Aviv by refusing to support the resistance front.

News ID: 426886

Date: 27 January 2017 - 21:10

RNA - “In a bid to please the Zionist regime (of Israel), Saudis have openly announced that they will never back the Palestinian movement against the occupying regime,” Sheikh Qassem told the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).

This is while, the Al Saud regime is involved in military intervention in various regional countries like Syria and Yemen, the cleric said, adding that it has shed the blood of the defenseless people of Yemen.

He went on to say that the Saudi rulers have dreams of dominating the Middle East region and they invaded Yemen to reach the same goal.

However, the people in the region do not recognize them as a legitimate government and have responded to the Saudis’ ambitious acts in Yemen, Sheikh Qassem noted.

The remarks came as Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition led by the Saudi regime for nearly two years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been launching deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Nearly 10,000 Yemenis, including 4,000 women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.

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