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Hezbollah on April 3 condemned what it called a United States-Israeli “barbaric aggression” against Syria, Yemen, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon.
In a statement, the group said that recent attacks on the countries were a part of a broader open war waged by the “American-Zionist axis of evil” against the region’s people, destabilizing countries, violating their sovereignty, and depleting their resources in an attempt to impose U.S. hegemony and serve Israeli interests.
Hezbollah also emphasized that Israel’s repeated strikes and incursions in Syria were aimed at weakening the Syrian state and preventing its recovery, calling it a flagrant violation of the country’s sovereignty.
The group went on to commended the resilience of the Syrian people, citing the recent Israeli incursion, which resulted in casualties, as proof of Syria’s continued dedication to resisting occupation.
Overnight, an intense wave of Israeli strikes hit military sites near the Syrian capital, Damascus, as well as in the central governorates of Hama and Homs, including two air bases and a research facility, killing at least four people. Clashes also broke out in the southern governorate of Daraa when locals took up arms to stop an Israeli incursion. At least nine were killed there.
Hezbollah in the same statement denounced the “persistent U.S. aggression” and the “humanitarian atrocities” committed against the Yemeni people. The group said that these actions were aimed at pressuring Yemen to abandon its support for Gaza.
Hezbollah also condemned the ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestine, particularly Gaza, noting the “continued genocide” and displacement efforts happening under the eyes of the international community.
“The continued genocide and forced displacement, carried out under the watchful eyes of an indifferent international community, demonstrate the enemy’s failure to break the will of the Palestinian resistance and the unyielding spirit of its people,” the statement reads.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah pointed to repeated Israeli attacks and ongoing U.S. pressure, which it said seeks to provide cover for Israeli crimes and impose its conditions through envoys acting on behalf of the Zionist entity.
Hezbollah warned that this dangerous escalation places the entire region at a critical juncture, necessitating unity among its nations to counter these existential threats.
“The equation is clear: either confrontation or submission to the enemy’s schemes, which seek nothing less than to subjugate the region and dominate its people and resources,” the statement declared.
The group reaffirmed its full solidarity with Syria, Yemen, and the Gaza Strip, urging all free nations to raise their voices against these crimes.
Hezbollah took heavy losses in the last confrontation with Israel, which broke out as a result of the war on Gaza. Since a ceasefire brokered by the U.S. came into effect in Lebanon last November, the group has largely refrained from responding to Israel.
In December, the group took another large blow when its close ally Syrian president Bashar al-Assad fled his country following a large-scale offensive by rebels. The group’s main supply lines were effectively cut with the collapse of the regime in Syria.
Hezbollah backed Assad against the rebels, including the Islamist group of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) which led the final offensive, since the outbreak of the war in Syria.
Nevertheless, since the fall of the regime, the group has stated its support for the emerging Islamist-led government in Syria.
Even when a government crackdown claimed the lives of more than 1,600 civilians, mostly members of the Shiite Alawite religious minority, last March Hezbollah didn’t intervene and voiced its respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.
While the recent statement addressed escalation all over the Middle East, it was, without a doubt, especially directed towards Syria.
Hezbollah apparently sees the recent Israeli escalation against the country as a chance for rapprochement that could possibly reopen its supply routes.
Meanwhile, the Islamists ruling Syria, who are mainly made up from the ranks of the now dissolved HTS, have repeatedly slammed Hezbollah, even going as far as accusing the group of attacking government troops on the border with Lebanon earlier this year.
While Syria’s new rulers initially hoped that their tough stance against Hezbollah and Iran would grant them serious political, economic and military support from Gulf states and the West, none of these hopes have materialized yet.
Even Turkey’s ability and willingness to support the new government in Syria was put in question by Israel’s recent attacks on the country, which were meant to deter Ankara.
If Israel continues to escalate against Syria, the government will have either to compromise to the point of weakening its own Islamist structure, or it could make a shift towards Hezbollah and Iran. After all, both sides share a Islam-based ideology, and the Sunni Hamas Movement, among the first to support the uprising in Syria, is one of the key allies of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, Iran and the rest of the so-called “Axis of Resistance” could provide the Syrian government with substantial support, especially militarily. Such an alliance could pose an even larger threat to Israel than the one that existed before the fall of the Assad regime.
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assad didnt send air defense systems to hezbollah and balistic missile fatheed 110 during the conflict againts israel
what good would it do even? israeli air forces was bombing syria casually all the time too, so if syria can’t protect itself, how would it help hezbollah? only russia had the ability to prevent zionist airstrikes and rabid regional aggression but russia did nothing cause putin. :]
russia didn’t save assad before, and now we would have a country in two parts like libya. now we have a lot of senseless violence and druze seeking israel’s protection. in the event that russia intervened, assad would have to get used to another capital (bonn was capital germany), because jolani would have taken damascus from him, and these massacres, which according to the white helmets claimed 2,000 and according to netanyahu, 100,000 deaths, would not have happened.
some time back, there was a deadly missile attack on a young news broadcaster’s car in central damascus. killed her instantly of course. that really summed up the total exposure to the zios, syrians were subjected to for years, without a right of reply in self defence due to their ‘benefactors’ control. putin and his jewed up kremlin primarily own this collapse, no matter what western bullshitter analysts and “experts” rant and deflect with.
putin was groomed by jews for his position. know that yosef mizrachi brags about it.
he pulled the rug under de a ss ad government
the zionists have carefully learned to exploit the tribalism that has existed throughout the mid-east for hundreds of years playing one tribe against the other. the goal of the usa and it’s zionists is to control all of the mid-east using genocide and american lives and money as necessary to the point of a world government.
the only reason the zionists have the power is because of the beast called democracy, which they conned everyone into loving and worshipping.
everyone worships the beast that gives the antichrist power, just as prophesied.
hezbollah has ceased to be a significant force, whatever its remaining potential.
no hezbollah together with any other force except the jews is a threat to the jews and in a longer perßpective the jews will all be dead. there is no way the 5 or 6 million jews can survive on a piece of land they have stolen and together with theirethnic cleansing, concentration camp gaza they are just digging the grave they will all fill up, landfill jews that they are!
in the end, israel will fight on the side of assad and iran on the side of jolani.
neither turkey nor iran wants the jews in the middle east and a face down is uninviteable and the jews will perish being far fewer than the rest in the me!
i proclaim my solidarity w other amerikan puritan hillbillies like ramses imho conan saxon piecediktok in our ghay bars
what syrian state? also what are hezbollah going to do about the zionist infestation?
5 million of landfill jews and turkey and iran say a 150 million people that hate the landfill. what will happen – extermination of the latter of ciurse.
trump caused the financial crisis, hezbollah will go into battle on the side of jolani and netanyahu on the side of assad.
say this, say that, issue warnings and ultimatums. either recommence active attacks against the gutless inbreds or capitulate. the time for yapping and hot air is over. past tense.
better flatten miliekowsky’s house then
hezbollah has proven itself impotent. nobody cares what they condemn.