Hariri Accuses Nasrallah of Acting as Owner of Lebanese Border Regions
Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri snapped back at Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah late Tuesday, accusing him of acting as the owner of Lebanese territories.
“Sayyed Hassan is dealing with the Lebanese border region in the South, East, Bekaa and the North as territories owned by Hizbullah, in which it moves as it wishes and buys and sells wars according to its will,” Hariri said in a tweet.
“You are tasking yourself with an immoral and unpatriotic and non-religious mission. You are playing with the fate of Lebanon on the edge of the abyss,” Hariri said in another tweet in response to claims made by Nasrallah that his party would attack Islamist militants in Syria's Qalamoun region that borders Lebanon.
The Mustaqbal leader stressed that Nasrallah believes “there is no place for the army, the government and institutions. Hizbullah is the alternative to all these and will substitute for them in going to war in Qalamoun.”
Nasrallah said in his speech broadcast by his party's al-Manar TV station on Tuesday that the Qalamoun war is imperative.
“Time will tell" when the battle will become full blown, he said, adding there will be no formal announcement before the widely anticipated war begins.
Nasrallah also vowed that his group will continue fighting in Syria along with President Bashar Assad's forces.
Al-Manar said earlier in the day that Hizbullah fighters captured the village of Hasina on the Syrian side of the border.
According to the station, fighting in the border areas near the Lebanese villages of Brital and Tufeil killed more than a dozen jihadi fighters and destroyed several of their vehicles.
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