Report: Free Syrian Army Doubts Adha Ceasefire Success amid Hizbullah Occupation of Syrian Towns
The Free Syrian Army accused Hizbullah of “occupying” six Syrian towns near the Lebanese-Syrian border, reported al-Liwaa newspaper on Friday.
A spokesman for the army, Fahed al-Msari, told the daily: “We doubt that United Nations and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi's ceasefire proposal for the Eid al-Adha holiday will be a success amid Hizbullah's occupation of these Syrian towns.”
He revealed that he had met with the envoy in Paris lately in order to address this issue.
He stressed the need to resolve it, adding that he had received information from Syrian officials that Hizbullah is using Lebanese territories in order to attack Syria.
It attacked the border town of al-Joussiyeh and al-Qusayr, Masri said.
He therefore demanded that the Arab League and U.N. Security Council convene to tackle these new revelations.
Given this reality, he said, Brahimi's ceasefire plan “will not achieve any results or change anything on the ground.”
“We want to cease the destruction of Syrian cities and stop the massacres being committed against the Syrian people,” stated the Free Syrian Army spokesman.
He called on Hizbullah to stop interfering in the Syrian conflict “otherwise it will suffer severe consequences.”
“Our main battle lies with the Syrian regime and not the Shiite sect in Lebanon,” he added.
“We therefore urge Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to halt his attacks against Syria otherwise we will teach him a lesson he will never forget,” he told al-Liwaa.
Brahimi had suggested that a ceasefire between the Syrian regime forces and rebels be implemented for the four-day Adha holiday, which falls on October 26.
A Hizbullah commander and several fighters have been killed inside Syria, a Lebanese security official told the Associated Press earlier in October.
The Syrian opposition has long accused the group of helping the Syrian leadership crack down on the uprising — a claim the group has repeatedly denied.
Hizbullah has stood by Bashar Assad since the uprising began in March 2011, even after the group supported revolts in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Bahrain.
The group says it is backing the Syrian regime because of its support for the anti-Israel resistance movements in Lebanon and Palestine and because it is willing to implement political reforms.
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