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Al-Aqsa Storm nullified Western support for Israel: Hezbollah

Sunday, 31 December 2023 10:14 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 31 December 2023 10:19 AM ]

Palestinians react as an Israeli military vehicle burns after it was hit by Palestinian resistance fighters, who infiltrated areas in the southern part of the Israeli-occupied 1948 territories on October 7, 2023. (Photo by Reuters)

A high-ranking official with the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says the large-scale surprise attack by Hamas and other Gaza-based resistance groups against Israel rendered ineffectual the regime’s army and its massive Western support.

Head of Hezbollah's Political Council, Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed, said that Al-Aqsa Storm Operation brought about a substantially strategic transformation, and that the status quo in the West Asia region is no more similar to what it used to be prior to October 7, when the Palestinian operation was launched.

“The operation could render ineffectual the Zionist regime’s military apparatus, and all the foreign support it was garnering generously,” Sayyed noted.

Regarding the United States’ and its Western allies’ stance vis-à-vis Hezbollah, he stated that Washington and those in its league view the Lebanese group and the Axis of Resistance as a threat to the advancement of their agendas.

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“The United States’ roots run deep into illegality, because it was established through occupation and acquisition of Native American lands by force. The Zionist regime was also created by means of usurpation of Palestinian lands. This will fizzle out at last and become history,” Sayyed pointed out.

The Israeli regime has been waging sporadic attacks on southern Lebanon since October 7, when it launched a devastating war against the besieged Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah has mounted near daily rocket attacks on Israeli positions, while Israel has conducted air and artillery strikes in southern Lebanon.

More than 150 people, mostly Hezbollah fighters, have been killed in the Lebanese territory since October 7, according to an AFP tally.

More than a dozen civilians, including three journalists, were also among them. The Lebanese army also lost a soldier.

Israel says at least six of its troopers and four settlers have been killed in the area.

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