Fadlallah Defends Hizbullah Role in Idlib Battle
Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Hasan Fadlallah on Sunday defended Hizbullah’s participation in the ongoing battle in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib near Turkey’s border, hours after Hizbullah announced the death of eight of its fighters there.
“The Islamic Resistance martyrs who ascended yesterday were through their blood trying to thwart an attempt by the takfiri groups and the states that back them to spread their presence once again in Syria,” Fadlallah said at a memorial service for one of the slain fighters in the southern town of Kfardounin.
“This battle that the resistance is fighting is in the face of a takfiri scheme led by the U.S. and its allies in the region,” the MP added.
“We will remain at the heart of the confrontation against it after it faced a major defeat due to the resilience of Syria and its army along with our resistance and Syria’s allies. We will continue this confrontation to prevent these people from seizing control anew of Syria,” Fadlallah went on to say.
He added: “We will remain in this battle as much as it needs our presence, at any location or spot, so that booby-trapped cars do not return to Lebanon and so that these groups do not return to our border.”
The deaths in Idlib marked the highest for Hizbullah in Syria in years as the group has pulled out many of its fighters from the neighboring country.
Hizbullah sent thousands of its battle-hardened fighters into Syria a year after the country's conflict began in 2011, helping President Bashar Assad's forces win major battles against insurgents. But over the past two years, Hizbullah has withdrawn many of its forces, leaving only a few hundred of them in several areas around the war-torn country.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 14 Hizbullah fighters were killed Friday afternoon in the village of Talhiyeh when Turkish drones attacked their post as well as others of the Syrian army.
The Observatory's chief, Rami Abdul Rahman, said the 14 Hizbullah fighters included 10 Lebanese citizens and four of other nationalities, including at least one Iranian.
More than a thousand Hizbullah fighters, including several founding members, have been killed in Syria.
01 March 2020, 17:46
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What is there to defend you POS?! WTF are you doing on the Turkish border?!
You are attacking civilians and causing humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. Now you're getting a taste of your own medicine. Every time we hear of the death of one of your sectarian terrorists we are ecstatic!
01 March 2020, 19:09
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The fact that he is left to try to defend kizb's actions probably isn't a good sign for them. And referring them to 'resistance' is just laughable---they are nothing more than mercenaries for Iran.
And yeah, good riddance too. The pictures they tried sending out were for PR's sake. Some mothers lost their kids fighting on foreign soil for a cause not linked to Lebanon. They will not be happy.
02 March 2020, 01:15
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Protecting Lebanon against booby-trapped cars or protecting the shia-axis from Teheran to Dahiye?
02 March 2020, 05:27
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"so that booby-trapped cars do not return to Lebanon and so that these groups do not return to our border.”
The same groups you put on the Mahdi Schoosl air conditioned buses?
GTFO iranian terrorist...
02 March 2020, 05:32
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They are not Lebanese! They are more iranians than iranians... full stop.
02 March 2020, 12:48
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Well said my friend, these guys are brainwashed Lebanese (the 10 out of 14 killed) following unquestionably their leaders.
Do I need to remind you (for those that still think all HA fighters are terrorists) what the Lebanese Forces fighters did to the Lebanese Army during the war of cancelation? Atrocities that cut deep wounds that have never recovered yet, and for what? To finally have a senile for president and a crook for Speaker of the parliament?
Anyways, the families of those dead have lost a son, a father and a husband whose salary covered their expenses and now with all the sanctions on HA, I want to see how they will keep covering postmortem salaries to their martyrs.
02 March 2020, 14:25
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As Diab said and admitted on weak Lebanese government which is leading to failure for not jailing those heads that brained washed and armed those brainwashed simple minded Lebanese citizens that continue to die outside Lebanese soil.
If you are born in Lebanon then our government is responsible for its citizens. Failure to protect its citizen is weak and they must hunt down those heads who sent these militias to fight on another non Lebanese soil before turkey sends its milita to dahyeh to kill those who killed its soldiers.
