Hezbollah MP hails army, stresses state's role on Syria border
by Naharnet Newsdesk 20 March 2025, 13:07
MP Hussein al-Hajj Hassan of the Loyalty to Resistance bloc has noted that Hezbollah 'considers that the responsibility for addressing and confronting what happened on the Lebanese-Syrian border falls on the Lebanese state and all its pillars and institutions.'
'Hezbollah, as part of it (the state), communicated with officials to push them to perform their role,' Hajj Hassan added during a funeral in the region.
'The people of the resistance and others are Lebanese who have been attacked, and the state's responsibility is to defend them and to defend its sovereignty and land,' the MP said.
Hailing the Lebanese Army, 'which performed its role, mobilized its forces and entered the Lebanese town of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali,' Hajj Hassan lauded the army's 'command, officers and soldiers, and its newly-appointed commander General Rudolph Haykal.'
The lawmaker also saluted President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri, saying the latter was in constant communication with the region's representatives.
Addressing the clans and families of the region, Hajj Hassan called on them to be very vigilant, because 'some are working night and day to sow discord between the Lebanese themselves and between Lebanon and Syria.'
'There are U.S. hands, foreign intelligence agencies and others, and personal disputes that might happen and escalate,' he warned.
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