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Hezbollah Determined to Resist Despite US Threat: Officer |
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A senior military officer of Lebanese resistance guerrillas group Hezbollah, or Party of God, Saturday said that the organization is determined to resist in the face of U.S. threat, the official NNA news agency reported.
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A senior military officer of Lebanese resistance guerrillas group Hezbollah, or Party of God, Saturday said that the organization is determined to resist in the face of U.S. threat, the official NNA news agency reported.
Hezbollah's military commander in southern Lebanon Nabil Kawook said U.S. threat to Hezbollah will do nothing to help Israel but to enhance Hezbollah's force and solidify Lebanese and Arab people.
"Hezbollah will never succumb to any exterior pressure and threat. It will continue the mission to liberate occupied lands and force Israel to release all jailed Lebanese in Israeli prisons," Kawook said.
The officer, who is responsible for all military actions against Israel in south Lebanon, also announced that Hezbollah is "confident to carry out the course of Jihad, or holy war, in the face of U.S. and Israeli intimidation and menace."
The U.S. authorities have defined Hezbollah as a terrorist group in a terrorist list released recently. It called on international community to freeze bank accounts of all terrorist organizations and individuals. However, Beirut insists that Hezbollah is a resistance group against Israel's occupation instead of a terrorist group.
Kawook also accused Israel of violating Lebanese sovereignty by illegal flight over Lebanese air space. "The Jewish state acquired the U.S. nod to commit state terrorism and aggression against Arab countries," he said.
"But the resistance forces have succeeded in south Lebanon and disabled the U.S. and Israel to do more invasion to Arab," he stressed.
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