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Hezbollah Vows to Continue Fight Against Israel
Lebanese guerrilla group, Hezbollah, has vowed to keep its weapons to prevent possible Israeli attacks even if the Jewish state withdraws from the disputed Shebaa Farms, Lebanon's Al Nahar newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of Hezbollah, or Party of God, said that his group will remain on the border, with its weapons, Katyusha rockets and fighters, because "this serves Lebanese interests and security."
Hezbollah spearheaded resistance to eventually force Israeli troop withdrawal from south Lebanon last May, ending Israel's 22- year occupation of the border strip. But it vows to continue fighting as long as Israel occupies the Shebaa Farms, a mountainous area at the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Lebanon and Syria insist that the 200-square-kilometer farms belong to Lebanon while Israel says that it occupied the area from Syria in the 1967 Middle East War and that its fate should be determined within the peace talks with Damascus.
The Hezbollah leader said that no one could guarantee that Israel would not attack Lebanon "in a month or two," referring to recent Israeli threats to bomb a pumping station being built on Lebanon's Hasbani River.
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