Nasrallah: We Insist That Syria Remains Unified and Cohesive

Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, refuted the rumors that were spread recently about his health, saying that he decided to speak so that everyone can see and hear that all these rumors are baseless and part of the media war waged on Hezbollah.

In a speech broadcast on al-Manar TV on Wednesday, Nasrallah said “we insist that Syria remains unified and cohesive.. .we do not support its division because this is an Israeli project.”

He pointed out that gunmen are waging a massive campaign to seize villages in the border areas between Syria and Lebanon, specifically in al-Qseir and al-Harmel, with the gunmen seeking to displace locals, prompting the locals to bear arms to defend their lands and homes, while gunmen from outside these villages were preventing any attempt at reconciliation.

Nasrallah urged the people of these areas to cut off any attempt by those who seek to incite infighting or strife, adding that the gunmen in these areas are influenced by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the US.

He refuted allegations by some media outlets who quoted the US Ambassador in Lebanon as saying that Hezbollah and the Syrian government are planning to control a number of villages in al-Qseir countryside as part of a division plan, adding that field data prove otherwise as the fact that armed opposition groups seized villages inhabited by Lebanese citizens and displaced its people, like what happened in the village of Oum al-Damamel.

Nasrallah also refuted reports that the so-called “Free Army” attacked sites belonging to Hezbollah and that a Hezbollah convoy was attacked and its Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Naim Qassem, was injured.