RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council has criticised Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for threatening to send more fighters to neighbouring Syria after a car bomb hit his Shia party’s stronghold.
“At the same time that he calls for self restraint, he threatens the Syrians that his party will be more involved in fighting them,” GCC secretary general Abdullatif Al Zayani said in a statement released late on Monday.
“This is a flagrant meddling in their (Syrians’) internal affairs and an obvious violation of the Syrian sovereignty,” he said, describing Nasrallah’s speech of being “irresponsible”.
“Nasrallah continues to boast about the participation of his militia in slaughtering children, women and innocent Syrians, and destroying their towns and property,” Zayani said.
He even boasts that he is “ready to double the number of his militia fighters and even to join the fight himself against the Syrian people,” Zayani added.
AFP
