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Syria is to supply Lebanon's Hezbollah with "game-changing weapons" despite Israel's air strikes reportedly aimed at cutting off the flow of arms, the Shiite group's leader said on Thursday.
"You Israelis say your objective is to stop the capability of the resistance (against Israel) from growing... but Syria will provide (Hezbollah) with game-changing weapons it has not had before," Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech.
Nasrallah spoke days after Israel reportedly carried out two air strikes near Damascus last week.
Syria's response, he said, "is highly strategic", and also involves "opening to resistance fighters the front in the Golan", which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
"If you (Israel) see Syria as a corridor of arms to (Hezbollah), Syria will provide the resistance with those arms. This is a highly strategic decision," said Nasrallah.
Such a response "is more strategic than launching a rocket or carrying out an air raid" on Israel, he added.Iran funnels arms through Syria to the Shiite movement Hezbollah.
The movement fought a bitter war against Israel in 2006, and is a long sworn enemy of the Jewish state.Hezbollah has remained a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime throughout the country's conflict, which the UN said has killed more than 70,000 people.
Nasrallah recently acknowledged that Hezbollah members were backing loyalist troops in Syria who are fighting to crush an anti-regime insurgency.
He has systematically backed Assad's claims that the violence in Syria is the product of a foreign conspiracy aimed at crushing the anti-Israel axis.
On Thursday, Nasrallah said "Israel says it wants to push Syria out of the equation of the Arab-Israeli conflict". He described any future opening of the Golan front "and the declared opening of the door to jihad (holy war) to fighters from the Golan" as "the second strategic answer" to Israel's strikes.
"We are ready to receive any kind of game-changing weapons, even if it breaks the power balance (with Israel)... We deserve such weapons, and we will use the weapons to defend our people and our country," Nasrallah added.
"Just as Syria stood by the Lebanese people and gave moral and financial backing to its people's resistance, we announce that we stand by the side of the Syrian resistance," said Hezbollah's chief, pledging "moral, financial and logistical support for the liberation of the Syrian Golan".
Hezbollah says Syria to supply 'game-changing arms' > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation
"You Israelis say your objective is to stop the capability of the resistance (against Israel) from growing... but Syria will provide (Hezbollah) with game-changing weapons it has not had before," Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech.
Nasrallah spoke days after Israel reportedly carried out two air strikes near Damascus last week.
Syria's response, he said, "is highly strategic", and also involves "opening to resistance fighters the front in the Golan", which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
"If you (Israel) see Syria as a corridor of arms to (Hezbollah), Syria will provide the resistance with those arms. This is a highly strategic decision," said Nasrallah.
Such a response "is more strategic than launching a rocket or carrying out an air raid" on Israel, he added.Iran funnels arms through Syria to the Shiite movement Hezbollah.
The movement fought a bitter war against Israel in 2006, and is a long sworn enemy of the Jewish state.Hezbollah has remained a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime throughout the country's conflict, which the UN said has killed more than 70,000 people.
Nasrallah recently acknowledged that Hezbollah members were backing loyalist troops in Syria who are fighting to crush an anti-regime insurgency.
He has systematically backed Assad's claims that the violence in Syria is the product of a foreign conspiracy aimed at crushing the anti-Israel axis.
On Thursday, Nasrallah said "Israel says it wants to push Syria out of the equation of the Arab-Israeli conflict". He described any future opening of the Golan front "and the declared opening of the door to jihad (holy war) to fighters from the Golan" as "the second strategic answer" to Israel's strikes.
"We are ready to receive any kind of game-changing weapons, even if it breaks the power balance (with Israel)... We deserve such weapons, and we will use the weapons to defend our people and our country," Nasrallah added.
"Just as Syria stood by the Lebanese people and gave moral and financial backing to its people's resistance, we announce that we stand by the side of the Syrian resistance," said Hezbollah's chief, pledging "moral, financial and logistical support for the liberation of the Syrian Golan".
Hezbollah says Syria to supply 'game-changing arms' > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation
