20-04-2024 04:01 AM Jerusalem Timing

Yaalon: Hezbollah, not ISIL, Challenging Israel

Yaalon: Hezbollah, not ISIL, Challenging Israel

The Zionist defense chief said on Wednesday that the so-called ’Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group "has not yet challenged Israeli borders".

Zionist entity: Defense Minister Moshe YaalonThe Zionist Defense Minister said on Wednesday that the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group "has not yet challenged Israeli borders," but the occupation regime is concerned Lebanese Resistance fighters of Hezbollah will seize an opportunity to go on the offensive against it.

"So far, so good. But our main worry, regarding the situation in Syria … is Iranian Revolutionary Guard- backed factions, proxies, trying to open or to renew a terror front against us from the Golan Heights," Moshe Yaalon said during a press conference at the Pentagon alongside his US counterpart Ash Carter.

The Golan Heights is a Syrian decades-long Zionist-occupied area.

Yaalon claimed that Tel Aviv does not intervene in Syria as long as the Zionist red lines are not crossed. His quote totally contradicts with the history of the Zionist involvement in the Syrian crisis by funding and training the armed takfiri groups, and treating their wounded operatives inside the occupied territories.

"We do keep our well-done three redlines: not to allow any violation of our sovereignty, not to allow a delivery of advanced weapons to rogue elements in the region, as well as chemical weapons or agents to rogue elements in the region," he said in an attempt to obscure the Zionist atrocities in breaching the sovereignty of Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.

Ya’alon’s comments, moreover, came in contrary to reports of Israeli jets on multiple occasions having struck undisclosed targets inside Syria since the conflict began in 2011.

Regarding the Russian airstrikes on ISIL and other takfiri groups operating against the Syrian national forces, Yaalon said that the Zionists are "taking safety measures, precautions to avoid any conflict between us and them."

"We do not intervene in their activities, they don't intervene in our activities. We are free to operate in order to keep our interests,” he added.

Russia has launched a wide military campaign in Syria to eliminate all the armed groups operating against the Syrian military. The campaign is scheduled to end in January.