Nasrallah Expected to Reveal Stance on Quneitra Raid on Jan. 30
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Hizbullah General Secretary Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to make a speech next Friday during a popular rally to mourn the party fighters who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria's Quneitra.
Nasrallah will reveal Hizbullah's stance from the raid that killed a high-ranking Iranian military official, a prominent Hizbullah member and five others.
Media reports had said that Hizbullah's chief was expected to give the speech on Sunday at "Sayyed al-Shuhada” compound in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Israel and Hizbullah are bitter enemies and fought a bloody month-long war in the summer of 2006.
Among the dead in the airstrike was Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Imad Mughniyeh — a top Hizbullah operative who was assassinated in 2008 in Damascus in a bombing that the party blamed on Israel. Thousands of mourners attended his funeral Monday in Beirut.
In south Lebanon, thousands of Hizbullah supporters on Tuesday swarmed around the yellow-draped coffin of Mohammad Issa, a Hizbullah commander who also died in the airstrike. Issa was the highest-ranking among the group, and was among the senior cadres who headed the group's operations in Syria.
Around 10,000 supporters took part in his funeral in the southern Lebanese village of Arab Salim. Mourners fired their guns in the air and shouted anti-Israel slogans.
Since Syria's civil war began in March 2011, Israel has reportedly carried out several airstrikes in Syria that have targeted sophisticated weapons systems, including Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles and Iranian-made missiles, believed to be destined for Hizbullah.
Nasrallah recently said Hizbullah reserves the right to retaliate for those attacks. He also reiterated that the party may retaliate at any time for the assassination of the elder Mughniyeh.
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22 January 2015, 15:01
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Retaliate from Syria where you were bombed. Leave Lebanon out of this.
22 January 2015, 16:32
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Question to Hassan: Did you know that the Iranians had taken your fighters into the Golan, when did you know and if you did know why did you lie last week when you claimed that there were no HA fighters in the Golan? The families of those young men need to know why did someone they trusted with the lives of their children lie to them and trust those to foreigners unrelated to Lebanon! Or at least just explain to mouwaten, mystic, southern, flamethr and the rest of your salaried crew here why did you lie to them and make them to further look like fools.
22 January 2015, 17:56
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They were told not to enter in this zone. The Butcher never did. But Iran decided differently and they lost a General.
22 January 2015, 17:58
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I didn't know about the viper, but now I know. The Houthian is worse than the Anaconda.
22 January 2015, 18:31
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Sayed Hassan, if your fighters had died fighting the enemy in Lebanon, any enemy, I would today bow in respect to them. But ya Sayed, they died on non-Lebanese soil and I wonder what were they doing there. Is this the resistance you wish to deafen us with? Who were with them but Iranians, again, whose resistance are we talking about? Sure, you have your news media, they'll more than oblige to blare your speeches, but you're in trouble now, your main audience is no longer in Lebanon, but out of it.
22 January 2015, 20:59
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notice how they solved their exploding propane tanks problem and their Mercedes stopped catching electrical fires?
22 January 2015, 21:43
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Let me guess, Ebola is going to get revenge by killing innocent Israelis? Ebola Islamic Fascists are truly brave!
