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Thousands of regional resistance fighters say ready to join Hezbollah in case of war with Israel

Monday, 24 June 2024 6:44 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 24 June 2024 6:45 AM ]

Members of Yemen's Ansarullah military forces parade in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah.

Resistance groups in West Asia have expressed their preparedness to fight alongside the Hezbollah resistance movement in case of an Israeli war on Lebanon.

The groups from the Axis of Resistance made the announcement as heightened tensions on the Lebanese border with the occupied territories have raised concerns of a wider conflict in the region.

“We will be (fighting) shoulder to shoulder with Hezbollah” if an all-out war breaks out,” an official with an anti-terror group in Iraq told The Associated Press.

The official, along with another from Iraq, said some military advisers from Iraq are already in Lebanon.

Separately, an official with a Lebanese group said fighters from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, Afghanistan’s Fatemiyoun, Pakistan’s Zainebiyoun, and Yemen’s Ansarullah could come to Lebanon to take part in a war with Israel.

Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging deadly fire since early October, shortly after the regime launched a genocidal aggression against the Gaza Strip following a surprise operation by the Palestinian Hamas resistance group.

Hezbollah has vowed to keep up its retaliatory attacks as long as the Tel Aviv regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed at least 37,598 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 86,032 others.

Hezbollah officials have repeatedly said they do not want a war with Israel but if it happens they are ready.

On Tuesday, Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz warned of “all-out war” with Hezbollah after the resistance movement exposed Israel's vulnerability, releasing a video captured by a drone showing strategic locations in the northern part of the occupied lands, including sea and air ports in the city of Haifa.

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Israel’s air defense system provides an “imperfect shield” against Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement and its allies in the region, an American newspaper reports.

The following day, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said resistance officials from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other countries had offered to send tens of thousands of fighters to help Hezbollah if Israel invades Lebanon.

He added Hezbollah already has more than 100,000 fighters.

Meanwhile, Qassim Qassir, an expert on Hezbollah, said the current fighting is mostly based on high technology not fighters.

Eran Etzion, former head of policy planning for the Israeli foreign ministry, said there is “a high probability” of a “multi-front war.”

He noted that there could be intervention by the Yemeni and Iraqi fighters and a “massive flow” of fighters from Afghanistan and Pakistan into Lebanon and into areas on the Syrian border with the occupied territories.

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