Hezbollah Slams Zionist Aggression

Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says the assassination of one of its senior commanders was a ‘Zionist aggression,’ stressing such measures cannot undermine its determination to confront Israeli plots.

“There is no doubt that this martyrdom will make the mujahedeen more determined to continue confronting all forms of the Zionist aggression and thwart its goals,” Lebanon’s Daily Star quoted Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc as saying in a statement issued on Friday.

Hassan al-Laqis was gunned down while he was in his car parked outside his house near the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on December 4. Lebanese security officials said Laqis was rushed to a nearby hospital, but he succumbed to his wounds.

Following the incident, Hezbollah blamed the commander’s death on the Tel Aviv regime and said, “This enemy must shoulder complete responsibility and repercussions for this heinous crime and its repeated targeting of leaders and cadres of the resistance.”

The statement added that the killing of Laqis signals the necessity for further strictness in foiling the conspiracies that target the resistance front in Lebanon.

Grand Mufti Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, Lebanon’s highest-ranking Sunni cleric, has also censured the assassination and said such acts of aggression are aimed at sparking “great strike” in Lebanon.

“The sides claiming responsibility for this or that incident are bogus groups that aim at distracting people from the real side standing behind the assassination or explosion,” he said.

Source: Press TV