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Hezbollah chief warns Israel against continuing strikes in Syria
BEIRUT, Jan 27, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The chief of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement
on Saturday warned Israel against continuing strikes in Syria targeting
mainly Iranian positions, saying it could fuel war in the region.
Addressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly, Hassan
Nasrallah said in an interview with al-Mayadeen television: “Don’t make an
error of judgement and don’t lead the region towards war or a major clash.”
Israel has said the first strikes targeted mainly facilities it claimed
belonged to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force.
It said they were in response to a medium-range, surface-to-surface missile
the Quds Force fired from Syria at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on
Sunday, which Israeli air defences intercepted.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said 21
people had been killed in the strikes, the majority of them Iranians.
The Israeli army has since 2013 claimed hundreds of attacks on what it
says are Iranian military targets and advanced arms deliveries to Tehran-
backed Hezbollah, with the goal of stopping its main enemy Iran from
entrenching itself militarily in neighbouring Syria.
Israel has warned it will continue to target positions in Syria held by
Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 0810 hrs