Russia Rejects Israel Request to Target Hezbollah

Rasa - Russia has rejected information on Thursday that Moscow would allegedly allow the Israeli regime to target the Lebanese Hezbollah from the Syrian airspace.

News ID: 428026

Date: 09 March 2017 - 23:57

RNA - “I cannot comment on the information. This has nothing to do with reality,” the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

According to the spokesman, this theme “was not discussed”, adding that “there is no talk about that.”

Peskov noted that the issues to be discussed in the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow are the security issues and the situation in Syria and a number of bilateral issues.

The Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera TV had earlier claimed, citing a source close to Netanyahu, that Moscow would allegedly allow Israel to fight Hezbollah from the Syrian airspace.

According to Alwaght website, Hezbollah fighters are in Syria to battle Takfiri terrorists following the invitation of the country' government and also to prevent the spillover of the terrorists to Lebanon.

Speaking in December, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah hailed all Mujahedeen (resistance fighters) across Lebanon and Syria who are defending their countries against the Israeli and Takfiri enemies.

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