News - Middle East: There is no option but armed struggle to fight off the open aggression Israel is exercising in the occupied Palestinian territories and elsewhere in West Asia, says a high-ranking official with the Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah.

“When armed struggle has its roots in ethics and faith and its adherents are willing to make sacrifices, it will emerge triumphant, God willing,” Deputy Secretary-General of Hezbollah Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Saturday during a ceremony in the western village of Ghobeiry in commemoration of the fallen commanders and members of the resistance group.
Sheikh Qassem said his fellow resistance fighters are attempting to liberate mankind. “Such freedom will come by through sacrifices and out of altruism. We will eventually witness an independent Middle East with the Zionist regime wiped off its face.”
The Hezbollah official said the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Strom by Gaza-based resistance factions exposed the frailty and weakness of the Zionist regime, and drove it closer to downfall.