Sayyed Nasrallah Vows to Support Syria’s Efforts to Free Golan Heights

Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah voiced the movement’s support for Syria’s efforts to free the Golan Heights.

The Lebanese movement will stand by the Syrian resistance against Israel, specifically in its struggle to free the Golan Heights, Nasrallah said in a televised speech in Beirut on Thursday, referring to the part of the Syrian territory, which is under Israeli occupation.

Sayyed Nasrallah pointed to the recent Israeli strikes against Syria, and noted that the attacks were part of Israel’s ongoing campaign to prevent the resistance from becoming stronger.

“With regard to the Israeli strikes on Syria, the Israeli enemy is seeking to achieve its aims, one of which is to exclude and eliminate it as a factor within the ongoing resistance against Israel,” Sayyed Nasrallah stated.

“Israel knows that the source of strength of the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine is Syria. That is why it wants to remove it from the resistance front,” Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out.

Nasrallah also said Hezbollah has been enjoying a strong support from Syria, like that of no other Arab country.

The remarks by Sayyed Nasrallah came a few days after the Israeli regime carried out an airstrike on a research center in a suburb of Damascus. According to Syrian media reports, Israeli rockets struck the Jamraya research center.

Syria’s Foreign Ministry sent letters to the United Nations and its Security Council stating that Israel’s aggression shows the links between Tel Aviv and terrorist groups operating in Syria including the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoabi told reporters in Damascus on Sunday that Syria had the right and the duty to defend its people by all available means and it would not give in to Israeli acts of aggression.

The Israeli attacks on Syria have made the Middle-East more dangerous, the Syrian information minister said.

The Sunday Israeli aggression was Tel Aviv’s second strike on Syria in three days.

The Jamraya facility was also targeted in an Israeli airstrike in January.