Nasrallah Expected to Give Speech as Hizbullah Investigates Israeli Strike
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Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to give a speech on Sunday following the death of six party members in an Israeli strike in Syria as the movement investigated whether the attack was a result of a major security breach.
As Safir daily said Tuesday that Nasrallah had been scheduled to address his supporters on the seventh assassination anniversary of military commander Imad Mughniyeh on February 16.
But he is now likely to appear during a ceremony next Sunday, a week after the Hizbullah members, including Mughniyeh's son Jihad, were killed in the Israeli air strike in the area of Mazraat al-Amal on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
Hizbullah officials have said the Hizbullah members came under rocket shelling from Israeli helicopters. But U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said Monday that peacekeepers serving in the Golan saw drones flying before the attack.
"The incident is a violation of the 1974 agreement on disengagement" between Israel and Syria, he said.
However, Hizbullah's main focus in the investigation is likely the person who was targeted in the attack and whether Israeli agents had informed Tel Aviv about the convoy.
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards confirmed on Monday the death of one of their generals in a statement on their website.
"General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi and a number of fighters and Islamic Resistance (Hizbullah) forces were attacked by the Zionist regime's helicopters," it said.
A source close to Hizbullah said six Iranians had also been killed in the attack.
The director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdel Rahman told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Tuesday that the Hizbullah members and the Iranians were preparing for a “security act” in the Golan against Israeli targets before they were targeted in the strike.
But Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Walid Sukkarieh said the party is still investigating whether Israel was aware that the targeted members were from Hizbullah or whether it thought it was attacking a unit from Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops.
A Syrian activist, who uses the name Abu Omar, said Hizbullah was widely rumored to be training pro-Assad militiamen and Syrian government forces near the area of the strikes. The party has sent its forces to Syria to help the president against the rebellion.
In remarks to al-Joumhouria daily, Sukkarieh accused Israel of seeking to normalize relations with opposition forces in the Golan, mainly the al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front.
Another Hizbullah official Mahmoud Qmati expressed similar remarks, telling the newspaper that “Israel clearly stands by terrorist takfiri organizations” in Syria.
“This aggression sets a dangerous precedent in the history of the conflict,” he said.
“The Israeli enemy will not rest and will not be safe,” Qmati said.
He vowed a Hizbullah response. “Our right for a retaliation is clear and we will not give it up,” he added.
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20 January 2015, 08:20
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And how did you retaliate when Imad Mughniyeh, your most valuable asset, was killed?
20 January 2015, 12:23
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I sense fear in you M14 people, do you really expect the Resistance to look upon while being slaughtered? It is time for retaliation indeed, and yes even though our houses will be bombed upon again, it will be rebuild. The lives matter, buildings doesn't.
Most of you lives in the West anyway, so what do you care? Go live your libtard capitalist lives, with your pro zionists stances. Resistance will never bow down to your wishes.
20 January 2015, 14:48
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It is time for retaliation indeed, and yes even though our houses will be bombed upon again, it will be rebuild. The lives matter, buildings doesn't.
Yes, lives matter. Remember 1,000 Lebanese lost their lives last time
20 January 2015, 15:20
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Repaid in blood or fire? Most of the rockets started brush fires last time
20 January 2015, 15:35
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The 2006 war is nothing, compared to what the Resistance have now.
Why else do you think the Zionists are on such a high alert?
20 January 2015, 16:09
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What are you correcting Flamey? I said 1,000 Lebanese. And not all were civilians. There were Hezbos, but because they had no uniforms they were counted as civilians. And stop pretending like you report on your own comments. Everyone knows your silly antics on this site, making people look like they're talking to themselves.
Looooooooooool 120 IDF soldiers died inside Lebanon, and how many thousands of rockets did Hezbollah launch on Israel??? And how many died inside Israel???
20 January 2015, 16:12
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What are you correcting Flamey? I said 1,000 Lebanese. And not all were civilians. There were Hezbos, but because they had no uniforms they were counted as civilians. And stop pretending like you report on your own comments. Everyone knows your silly antics on this site, making people look like they're talking to themselves.
Looooooooooool 120 IDF soldiers died inside Lebanon, and how many thousands of rockets did Hezbollah launch on Israel??? And how many died inside Israel???
20 January 2015, 16:17
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texas, the Resistance will not go down without a fight. Israel wants to eradicate it indeed, so do you believe we will all just sit on our hands and die? Think again.
20 January 2015, 17:16
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Flamey, in your first comment you never said 1300 to correct me. And what are you trying to say, not one Hezbollah fighter died?? Lol hilarious. It's funny you bring up the Red Cross. Did you know Hezbollah used Red Cross ambulances to transport rockets??
Texas, like I told Mystic, the IDF can take over all of Lebanon in a matter of minutes. The Gaza wars and Hareb Tammouz are all fake wars.
20 January 2015, 17:18
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How are these wars fake, nickjames? Well let's think about this. Hezbollah has what 30,000 men at the most, and 50,000 rockets most of which are unguided Kaytushas. Hamas has 20-25,000 men with even crappier rockets. Now let's look at the IDF. 175,000 ACTIVE personnel, 4,000 tanks, 700 combat aircraft, and another 10,000 AFVs, not to mention a navy. If it even used a third of its strength it would take over Lebanon in a couple hours
20 January 2015, 15:59
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(1). Mystic, I am one who doesn't enjoy nor gloat over the death of any HA militiaman, but all the same, please try to stop this random accusation of M14, or accuse anyone of fear. Fear? Certainly, and here I very much believe that every sensible person must have fear in the heart especially given the reckless attitude shown by both Sayed Hassan and Hezbollah in 2006. You my dear Mystic seem to treat the matter with some nonchalance at best, either you are trying to hide a profound malaise within your ranks, or you're downright over zealous. HA keeps saying to the world how advanced its weaponry has become, OK khaye, good, let's say we accept then what?
20 January 2015, 15:59
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(2) Mystic. Those supplying you with weaponry are a lot bigger than your HA, in any way we look at it any comparison pales into insignificance. We have Iran and Syria, two major protagonists, both of them a stone's throw from Israel, so you want the world to believe that they with their major potentials have not been so far able to do zilch with Israel, but that your militia can? So Israel, being such a ruthless, utterly cruel nation, very known for its mercilessness, yet also known for its vast capacities amongst which being America and the EU themselves, has not done much since 2006? Mystic, what you call fear is purely wisdom, if you guys lack it, then may God help you people and us all, that's all any sane thinking Lebanese will tell you.
20 January 2015, 16:17
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Phoenix, all I can answer to your comments is this.
Without the Resistance, there will be nothing else left to live for.
20 January 2015, 17:06
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Even with these martyrs dead texas, do you believe the Resistance will just give up like that?
You people are very naive. Endurance is the strength of the Resistance, that is one thing Israel lack of.
20 January 2015, 08:22
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The members of Hezbollah are living martyrs. They will keep fighting the apartheid state of Israel and their followers the ISIS takfiris till judgement day. Nobody is sad about the martyrdom of any figter, it is greeted with joy because they have archieved the greatest in their lives. Naharnet and their zionist supporters can easily sit in the West and beyond to smear the resistance, makes no difference you can stand in a queue with the rest of them bloody westerners. Resistance will triumph!
20 January 2015, 08:39
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Israel, Iran, Ebola: three entities doing terrorism outside their country.
20 January 2015, 08:40
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The members of Hezbollah are terrorists who intimidate the state and instil fear in all the Lebanese with sectarian propaganda. They will keep fighting the apartheid state loooool you're obsessed with your fake Hezbo-Israeli war. Israel can take over all of Lebanon in 12 minutes if it wanted to, but Hezbollah have become a new Israeli asset, as their undermining of the state allows Israel to steal Lebanon's oil and continue sorties on a daily basis.
20 January 2015, 09:13
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I support your right to retaliate just do it from Syria where you got hit Lebanon has not thing to do with this.
20 January 2015, 10:47
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but M8ers do not care about Lebanon! if Lebanon is hit it s the least of their concerns as long as hezbollah get what they want...
for them the state of Lebanon does not exist: it is the state of hezbollah and they do whatever they want with the full support of M8 even if it means to drag Lebanon into war and make people suffer!
20 January 2015, 16:08
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Mohamed I too support this idea, let them do it from Syria or even Iran if they wish, but let them leave Lebanon in peace, that's all.
20 January 2015, 09:37
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Ya Mastika... this is great... we share the same feeling... we are "greeting their death with joy" too!
20 January 2015, 12:24
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Russia just continued their plan to resupply Iran with S-300 air defense system. I guess the Russians are sick of being stepped on in Ukraine.
World powers are also fighting each other, with the West and Eastern tensions.
20 January 2015, 15:11
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Aslong as the West keeps sanctions on Russia, and keeps pressuring them about Ukraine. That means the russkies will move closer to Iran, and the East.
That is the result of their continuation of the S-300 systems to Iran & Syria. That means no fly zone kids, you are right that it is a bit outdated, only need to copy a few details from it, and turn it into something better,
Iranian style yes. Just like the drones captured from the U.S
20 January 2015, 16:44
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"Move closer to the East"? LOL. You mean Iran, Syria and HA? That East?
20 January 2015, 18:14
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"The members of Hezbollah are living martyrs. They will keep fighting the apartheid state of Israel and their followers the ISIS takfiris till judgement day. Nobody is sad about the martyrdom of any figter, it is greeted with joy because they have archieved the greatest in their lives."
funny how the rhetoric of hezbollah is EXACTLY the same as takfiris... same islamist extremists and fanatics just different sect LOL
20 January 2015, 08:22
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The title of this article is funny. "Hezbollah investigates" lol as if they have a legitimate law enforcement agency not to mention Syria would be out of the agency's jurisdiction unless the Syrian authorities have given them jurisdiction to "investigate"
20 January 2015, 08:30
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@mystic you are a certified takfiri/isis whatyou just said sounds familiar... ive heard and read it coming from isis..
""Nobody is sad about the martyrdom of any figter, it is greeted with joy because they have archieved the greatest in their lives. Naharnet and their zionist supporters can easily sit in the West and beyond to smear the resistance, makes no difference you can stand in a queue with the rest of them bloody westerners. Resistance will triumph!""it must be a shee3a think to think you are winning or will win this war... in your blind shee3a eyes you are winning but the rest of the world knows you are loosing and will loose. keep hanging on to syria because its your last resort.. when bashar falls the garbage hizbulshaitan will fall shortly after.. mark my words.
20 January 2015, 08:34
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id like to know, those terrorist in the picture above are they lebanese police men? or Lebanese army?
How are they allowed to carry weapons like that in public? is that what you call democracy?
20 January 2015, 08:39
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Israel, Iran, Ebola: three entities doing terrorism outside their country.
20 January 2015, 08:54
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Another proof that Ebola is Iranian army.
The reason I dislike Iran is they are a backward country.
20 January 2015, 09:11
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Is he gonna admit he lied last week when he said that hezballah was not in the golan?
20 January 2015, 10:11
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Keep telling yourself that and with time you'll start beliving it. And no you were nefer kidnapped by aliens and probed, that was your imagination as well.
20 January 2015, 15:38
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"Hezbollah Secretary General said that the party does not deploy military units on Golan Heights(...)"
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=190782&frid=23&cid=23&fromval=1&seccatid=14
20 January 2015, 12:20
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Yes FT, good. Keep reposting your comments, don't let the zionists of Naharnet silence you.
20 January 2015, 12:31
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No Zionists here, just concerned Lebanese citizens that are not interested in being "living martyrs" for old man Khamanei but would rather just be living for themselves and their family.
As for the Assad regime, it is a joke. A bunch of stupid jihadis, (not Hezbollah in this case), brought the mighty Assad army to a standstill.
The mighty Assad army and its allies from the Islamic Republic and their proxies are in fact fighting on the same side as the civilized world against Daesh.
It is like Stalin fighting alongside the allies against the Nazis.
Hatred and intolerance are symptomatic to pro-Hezbollah and Assad supporters calling other Lebanese "zionists" and other more rude words. This violent language online and the actual violence and assassinations used on the streets of Beirut over the years is why a lot of ordinary Lebanese are opposed to the Islamic Republic's allies.
20 January 2015, 15:21
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What happen to you machia? Cold feet all of a sudden, that is very typical M14. You whine and talk big, that a shot is never fired from Golan and blablabla, now it has all been proven wrong, and yet you believe everything will turn out to Israels favor.
You shouldn't be too happy my friend, war is on, it has been for a very long time.
20 January 2015, 17:20
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The only shot that has been fired again again and again and again is from the Israeli side towards Syria.
Didn't see anything the other way round yet!
It is always Lebanon that pays the price of Khamanei's and Assad's follies.
20 January 2015, 12:35
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Nasrallah threatened Israel with violent retaliation a few days ago if it hit Syrian territory. I guess Israel responded in a language that the Islamic Republic and its allies understand very well: extreme violence.
Zionism and Khomeinism and Extreme Islamism are all disgusting extremist ideologies that should be banned.
20 January 2015, 13:45
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Here we go I am a "sahyounee" because I express views that are not to the liking of Khamanei's violent fan club.
Being called a "sahyounee" is in effect being called a traitor and a spy and the sentence for this is prison (Lebanese Government) or a car bomb (Hezbollah).
Intolerance is inherent to Khomeinism, Zionism, Jihadi Islamism and dicatators like Assad.
20 January 2015, 13:47
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It is sad that the Khomeini and Assad fan club can only make their point by insulting or killing people who do not agree with them.
20 January 2015, 15:13
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It is like Stalin fighting alongside the allies against the Nazis.
Lmaooooooooooo and Stalin didn't even fight alongside the Allies. He fought from one front, the Allies from the other
20 January 2015, 15:57
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Libtard? Oh yeah, I made the perfect description of you.
To defeat the enemy, you have to able to think like he does in my case, the US of A.
Zionists on the other hand, indeed wishes that the Resistance will not respond to this aggression. Don't be too happy Mr. Zionist, it's soon your states turn for karma.
20 January 2015, 16:52
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I never lived in the U.S, and I will never intend to live there. Does it really scares you that much, that I know so much about your capitalist kind?
I did study in the American University of Beirut, that is the closest thing to America I ever came.
That is also the closest thing to my personal life, I will ever tell you zionists.
20 January 2015, 16:58
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Cowards you write, hmm. What about the Israelis countless air raids, on women and children in Gaza last summer?
You call that heroic? Pathetic libtard.
20 January 2015, 17:25
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How about you tell us something about yourself veritas1?
What makes you love Israel so much, that you lack any sympathy for human kind?
20 January 2015, 18:52
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Freedom to occupy other people's lands. Freedom to kill them anywhere. Freedom not to make peace. Freedom to be sectarian. Freedom to kill any Israeli politician that chooses peace. Freedom to elect racist parties. Freedom to bomb other countries.
20 January 2015, 18:54
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Israelis are voting for anti-peace crazy extremists, making Zionism no better than Khomeinism and Islamist Jihadism.
20 January 2015, 18:33
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Hezbollah did nothing against Israel in 2006, they killed 120-130 idf soldiers, israel killed more than 1000 civilians , and more than 100 hezbollah fighters reported dead by the media. That is, the ones they have found, because many bodies are still buried under the earth and more taken to be exchanged afterwards for israeli soldiers bodies. So flamethrower, mystic wtv, stop making yourselves the expert of warfare because you know nothing of war. It is dirty, trickery, and both sides have more than once negotiated for a cease-fire during the 2006 war because all they wanted was to put those unifil poor soldiers at the borders. Hezbollah doesnt want to fight israel, it wants lebanon. Israel is more than pleased with that because there will never be a lebanese state. Most important people in Hezbollah responsible for outside of lebanon operations against israelis have been discovered to be Mossad. Stop it supporters of Hezbollah, your militia is the number one traitor of Lebanon...
20 January 2015, 18:36
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You are fighting a war in Syria that you have started, instead of planning with the lebanese state to remove weapons from palestinians camps, then join the lebanese army as a regiment of the south, operated by a hezbollah commander ( why not?). no. You don't want nore the state or its constitutions. You have obliged the liked of all those stupid and worthless lebanese parties to become like you, armed and as corrupt as you. Nobody gives a rat's ass about Lebanon, neither march 14th or march 8th. Its grab whatever you can before it all collapses. Good luck all of lebanese living in this rathole of a country. You will pay your lack of patriotism and love of money and appearances instead of your love of country
