Several Countries Condemn Asessination of Hezbollah’s Leader
Supporters of the Hezbollah Brigades carry the pictures of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and late deputy of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, during a protest against against the killing of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Photo: EFE/EPA/AHMED JALIL
September 28, 2024 Hour: 2:00 pm
Russia, Cuba, Turkiye, and several worldwide and Middle East leaders have condemned the assessination of the Lebanon’s rebel group Hezbollah leader Sayyan Hassan Nasrrallah by the Zionist state on Saturday.
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The armed Palestinian resistance Hamas, said after the crime to “condemn in the strongest terms this barbaric Zionist aggression and targeting of residential buildings,” accusing Israel of disregarding “all international values, customs and charters” and “blatantly threaten[ing] international security and peace, in light of silence, helplessness and international neglect”.
Hamas added that in the face of the Israeli Nasrallah assessination they will “renew our absolute solidarity and stand united with the brothers in Hezbollah and the Islamic resistance in Lebanon.”
For his part, the Iranian government president Masoud Pezeshkian issued a statement saying Nasrallah’s killing “will only further strengthen the resistance”. He added the US cannot deny complicity.
In this regard, the Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared five days of mourning after the killing of the Lebanese group’s leader calling on all Muslims to rise against Israel and said Nasrallah’s blood “will not go unavenged”.
“The Zionist criminals must know that they are far too insignificant to cause any significant harm to the strong structure of the Lebanese Hezbollah”, Khamenei stressed on a statement.
Other region country which rised its voice against the Israeli actions it is Turkiye. The MP Speaker Numan Kurtulmus said “The assassination of Lebanese religious leader and Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, by Israel is a grave consequence of the long-standing policies of occupation, destruction, and annexation against not only the Palestinian people but all the peoples of the region.”
Russia’s Foreign Minister said in a statement this new military actions “is fraught with even greater dramatic consequences for Lebanon and the entire Middle East.” In this regard they said the killing of Lebanese citizens, “which will almost inevitably provoke a new outbreak of violence”.
The Russian FM also urged Israel to halt the aggressions against the Arab countries, saying that would provide the circumstances for the crisis to be resolved, at the time they warned he world community must do all possible to avoid the Middle East from devolving into a full-fledged war following Sayyed Nasrallah’s death.
In Europe, the founder and leader of the left-wing party La France Insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon expressed on an X post his “consternation” by the recent Israeli agressions against the Lebanese people saying that “Netanyahu is violating the sovereignty of states throughout the region with the complicity of Europe and the USA.”
“The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah is one more step towards the invasion of Lebanon and general war. France no longer counts on the ground. Netanyahu’s crimes will continue since they are unpunished. The danger is extreme for the region and the world,” Mélenchon added.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel, said, for his part, that “This fact seriously threatens regional and global peace and security, for which Israel bears full responsibility with the complicity of the United States.”
Autor: ACJ
Fuente: Al Mayadeen // Anadolu Agency // Al Jazeera