Hezbollah leader vows to support Gazans
Hezbollah leader vows to support Gazans
By ZEINA KARAM
July 25, 2014
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group vowed on Friday to support Palestinian militants battling Israeli troops in Gaza, even as his own fighters are bogged down in the war in neighboring Syria.
In his first remarks on the latest Israeli-Palestinian fighting that erupted on July 8, Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel that it would be “suicide” to continue waging war in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah, a Shiite group, has long been one of the closest allies of Hamas, the main Palestinian Sunni faction which controls Gaza. Both militant groups are backed by Iran.
But relations between Hamas and Hezbollah soured following the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s rule in Syria, which erupted in March 2011, became an insurgency waged by overwhelmingly Sunni rebels, and later descended into full-blown civil war.
Hamas’ leader Khaled Mashaal shuttered Hamas’ Damascus offices and now spends most of his time in Qatar, the tiny Gulf Arab country that has strongly backed the rebels battling to overthrow Assad.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, is heavily engaged in fighting alongside Assad’s forces in Syria.
On Friday, Nasrallah called for putting all disputes aside in support of Gaza.
He said Hezbollah is closely following the Israel-Hamas fighting and that his followers will do all they can to help the Palestinians. He did not elaborate.
“From here I say to our brothers in Gaza: We are with you and beside you and confident of your steadfastness and your victory and we will do everything we can to support you,” he said.
Nasrallah spoke during a rare public appearance before thousands of supporters in southern Beirut, marking “Al-Quds Day” — a day of solidarity with Palestinians that Arabs traditionally observe on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Al-Quds is Arabic for Jerusalem.
He said Gazans have already emerged victorious because “Israel has failed to touch the command and control structures of the Palestinian resistance,” or achieve any of its goals in Gaza so far.
Addressing Israelis, Nasrallah said: “You are in Gaza now in a state of failure, don’t go further to the level of suicide and collapse.”
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WarSclerotic 
July 26, 2014 at 12:41 PM
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Hezbollah leader vows to support Gazans
July 26, 2014 at 5:14 PM
You sir are a sick puppy and bring absolutely nothing to this conversation other than a deluged of babble!
July 26, 2014 at 10:11 PM
JP he don’ hear you…
July 28, 2014 at 3:45 PM
If you go to his website, you get the same repetition as if it were some sort of computer glitch or automatic posting designed to hit several sites with canned comments. Expecting any reply from this guy is probably futile as well as a huge waste of time.
July 27, 2014 at 7:43 PM
so, obaid…what do you think Israel should do with the Hamas leaders who hide underground, after catching them? of course, if the brave men who force fellahin, at the point of a kalashnikov, to stand in front of the rocket launchers when the IDF comes to destroy those rocket launchers, choose to strap on a suicide vest, there is no debate about their fate. but, obaid, what if the brave mujahideen who hide beneath shifa hospital decide to don women’s clothing and to try to sneak away? what then, if IDF catches them? we have 3 options, obaid, (who no doubt is an indian muslim, 3000 miles away from the fighting). what then?
1. IDF can execute them on the spot.
2. IDF can strip them down to their underpants, cuff their hands behind their backs, and march them off to court and then prison. but first IDF will allow all the fellahin, who Hamas has murdered, to see these girlies being marched, publicly, without their fancy Italian suits to cover their fat stomachs.
3. or IDF can just give them to the masses of people in Gaza, who have lost everything because these fat rich thieves used the international aid to build fat swiss bank accounts fr themselves, instead of building a viable society.
So, Obaid in India, what is your vote? 1, 2, or 3?
July 27, 2014 at 7:47 PM
Hey Racist!! I refer you to the above. What should Israel do with the captured Hamas leaders once they’re pulled from their air conditioned bunkers beneath shifa Hospital?