Hamas was “not serious in its call on Hezbollah for assistance in the Palestinian Gaza Strip,” Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says in an interview with the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, excerpts from which were released yesterday.
While the actual meaning of Nasrallah’s words can’t be gleaned from the few excerpts that have been released (the full interview will be published today and tomorrow), they may indicate that the Shiite Hezbollah, which has been fighting Sunni Islamists alongside forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, harbors some criticism toward Hamas, which has called on Hezbollah to open a new northern front against Israel amid the fighting to the south in the Gaza Strip.
An image grab from Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV shows Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon’s Shi’ite Muslim movement Hezbollah, giving a televised address from an undisclosed location on March 29, 2014 in Lebanon. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/AL-MANAR)
Also in the interview, Nasrallah vows that his organization’s involvement in Syria will not affect its presumably violent plans for Israel.
“What we have prepared for Israel was not affected by our actions in Syria,” he says.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stated that there are “no red lines” in the “security war” with Israel, reported al-Akhbar newspaper.
He also vows to continue “defending” Lebanon’s south and its border with Syria, indicating that Hezbollah’s paramilitary “resistance” activities will continue alongside its political ones.
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