“Via Silver Lining
It is the creators of this malicious entity who predicted that their first defeat will bring Israel’s end.
In a movement like Hezbollah, a resistance that chose death over humiliation, oppression and occupation it is not likely that the killing of its leaders and cadres will stop. Hajj Redwan was simply the last, at least for now.
“Those martyrs presented the good example, achieved liberation, and are still defending the country and supporting the resistance in Palestine. They are still raising the banner, the ensign, the flag that we vowed together not to let go. The flag will never fall. On the contrary, it will pass from one shoulder to another and from one hand to another until it is raised up high over our mountain tops and over the dome of our beloved ‘Aqsa’ and until our Lebanese, Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic lands are free from occupation,” Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said during the funeral of martyr Ghaleb Awali – a Hezbollah cadre assassinated by the Mossad in July, 2004.
The ensign that is moving from one hand to another was first carried by “the sheikh of the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance” Sheikh Ragheb Harb who once said: “A position is a weapon and a hand shake is acknowledgment”, referring to the acknowledgment of Israel. His positions prompted the Israelis to detain him, what sparked an uprising across south Lebanon to demand his release. Israel couldn’t quiet him so it found no other solution than to kill him on February 16, 1984. Israel thought that, by killing Sheikh Harb, it will go on with its scheme more smoothly. However, his blood, like the blood of those who will follow him, was destined to draw the path of resistance and jihad.
A few years later, Lebanon witnessed another Israeli assassination of a resistance figure. This time, it was Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Abbas Moussawi. He was on his way back home after having marked the eighth anniversary of Sheikh Harb’s martyrdom when his car was hit by rockets launched from Israeli warplanes killing him, his wife, and their son Hussein. Sayyed Mussawi’s fundamental will was: “Preserve the resistance.”
Once again, a leader’s martyrdom had given the resistance movement more momentum. Eleven years later, the Israeli occupation targeted a key resistance figure, Abu Ali Rida Yassin. The now strong resistance retaliated and bombed Zionist targets. Israel backed for eight years, before Said Harb, another resistance commander, fell a martyr. At that same day, resistance fighters carried out two military operations against Israeli posts and shelled Zionist settlements with ‘Katyosha’ rockets.
The long procession of martyrs never stopped; it’s not meant to stop before complete victory. On August 1999, resistance commander Ali Hasan Dib, known as Abu Hasan Salame, was targeted by a bomb explosion on the ‘Abra-Hilaliye’ road in southern Lebanon. Mossad agent, a Lebanese called Mahmoud Rafeh, had played a significant role in his assassination. Rafeh is under arrest and awaits trial and perhaps the gallows. He was also involved in the assassination of resistance commander Ali Hussein Saleh in the Kafa’at region in the southern suburb of Beirut on August 2003 and a couple of years later, two Islamic Jihad officials in the southern city of Sidon.
11 months have passed before another resistance figure joined the procession. Ghaleb Mohamed Awali was assassinated when a bomb planted in his car exploded in the ‘Moawwad’ region in the southern suburb of Beirut.
Last but for sure, not least, top commander Imad Moghniyyeh joined his brothers and all the Islamic resistance martyrs who have made their country proud and rendered the enemy defeated.
Today Israel is still threatening Lebanon with war and Lebanon is promising Israel a resounding defeat. With the sacrifices of resistance fighters and cadres, Lebanon is no longer the Lebanon that former Israeli PM Golda Meir thought would be conquered by the zionist army band…
Uprooted Palestinian
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