Beirut: Hezbollah will assist the Syrian authorities amid escalating offensives by insurgent forces, Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem mentioned in a televised speech.
Whereas Qassem didn’t make clear the type of assist, he assured on Thursday that Hezbollah would “do what it might”.
Qassem accused the US and Israel of instigating aggression towards Syria as a result of their failure in Gaza. He additionally claimed that “terrorist teams” sought to shift Syria’s alignment from supporting the resistance to backing Israeli occupation, Xinhua information company reported.
“We face a really harmful Israeli venture towards the Center East,” he warned.
His feedback got here hours after Syrian opposition forces captured the strategic metropolis of Homs in central Syria, marking a major advance of their offensive that began on November 27. The rebels had beforehand seized Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest metropolis, in earlier assaults.
The United Nations World Meals Program reported that greater than 280,000 individuals had been displaced by the latest violence, in line with a publish on X.
