Hezbollah condemns the Israeli raids on Syria and affirms its support for its people

Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Monday condemned increased Israeli attacks on Syria and said it stood by its people, in its first comments since the ouster of its ally, former President Bashar al Assad.

In a statement, Hezbollah condemned Israel’s “occupation of more lands in the Golan Heights” and “strikes and destruction of the Syrian state’s defensive capabilities” after the fall of Assad, adding, “While we affirm our support for Syria and its people, we stress the need to preserve the unity of Syria, its land and its people”.

The statement said, “The continuing crimes committed by the Zionist enemy on Syrian territory, whether by occupying more lands in the Golan Heights or striking and destroying the defensive capabilities of the Syrian state, represent blatant aggression and a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the Syrian state and people, and constitute an attempt to destabilize this brotherly country”.

The statement added: “This aggressive occupation of Syrian lands comes with the continued aggression of the Zionist army on Lebanon and its daily violations and attacks on Gaza, which puts the peoples in front of an imminent danger that confirms the unity of the peoples’ path and the necessity of rejecting and confronting this aggression”.

The statement continued, “While we condemn these attacks and warn against the consequences of their continuation, we also call on the world, especially the Arab and Islamic worlds, to take firm positions against these crimes and to exert pressure in all political and legal fields to stop this series of attacks, as all the justifications put forward by the enemy are flimsy allegations”.

Hezbollah pointed out in its statement that “all attempts by the enemy to control new Syrian lands cannot establish any kind of rights, as all of this can only be called an ongoing occupation in the Golan region since 1967, while we affirm our support for Syria and its people, we stress the necessity of preserving the unity of Syria, land and people”.