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Hezbollah says its commander martyred near Beirut

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Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, says one of its commanders, Hassan al-Laqqis, has been assassinated near the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

The commander “… was assassinated near his house in the Hadath region” east of Beirut, Hezbollah said in a statement broadcast by the Lebanese network al-Manar on Wednesday.

Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the assassination.

“Direct accusation is aimed of course against the Israeli enemy which had tried to eliminate our martyred brother again and again and in several places but had failed, until yesterday evening,” Hezbollah said in the statement.

“This enemy must bear full responsibility for and all the consequences of this heinous crime,” it added.

The Tel Aviv regime launched two wars on Lebanon in 2000 and 2006. About 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians, were killed in the 2006 33-Day War.

On both occasions, however, Hezbollah fighters defeated the Israeli forces and Tel Aviv was forced to retreat without achieving any of its objectives.

In August 2012, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the resistance movement has both the capability and the courage to defend Lebanon and that the movement’s missiles are ready to strike back certain targets inside Israel in self-defense if Tel Aviv launches an attack on Lebanon.

“If we are forced to use them to protect our people and our country, we will not hesitate to do so… and that will turn the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists into a living hell,” Nasrallah said, adding that Hezbollah has fixed its targets.

He also said that a possible future war would be extremely costly for Israel and incomparable with its 2006 war on Lebanon.

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