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Hezbollah urges more suicide attacks on Israel
CTV News Staff
Date: Friday Nov. 29, 2002 11:41 PM ET
The militant group Hezbollah urged its Palestinian supports on Friday to continue their suicide attacks against Israel, saying it's the best way to liberate their land.
The Lebanon-based group said experience shows that no political solution would end the Israeli occupation.
Hezbollah spokesperson Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Palestinians should ignore international condemnation of suicide attacks. He said only through "martyrdom seekers" will Jerusalem and its holy places get back to the Palestinian people.
"What the Palestinians are doing with the martyrdom operations is legitimate, legal, Islamic and moral because they seek to end injustice," Nasrallah told a rally in the Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh.
"Today the resistance in Palestine is also a case of self-defence. The Palestinians do not attack others. They did not go to Russia to kill Russian Jews, Ukraine to kill the Ukrainian ones, Poland to kill Polish Jews, or to Ethiopia to kill the Falasha, if they are Jews," he said.
"The Zionists are the ones who came from all over the world to usurp the land, holy places, cities and villages of others," Nasrallah said.
His comments were made on Jerusalem Day, which marks the anniversary of the 1947 UN resolution partitioning Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
Thousands of people lined the streets of Nabatiyeh to watch a Hezbollah military exhibition and a parade of armed units.
Hundreds of people joined similar rallies near Palestinian refugee camps throughout Lebanon. In Damascus, more than a 1,000 people marched carrying Palestinian, Hezbollah and Syrian flags.
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