Protests near Lebanese Embassies in Cairo, Doha against Hizbullah Role in Syria
Tens of the supporters of the Muslim Revolutionaries movement in Egypt on Sunday staged a sit-in in front of the Lebanese embassy in Cairo to protest Hizbullah's involvement in the Syrian war.
The Egyptian daily al-Shourouq reported that the protesters chanted slogans denouncing the party as the security forces brought reinforcements to the neighborhood where the embassy in located.
The Islamic movement had previously staged several sit-ins in front of the Iranian consulate against the “Shiite tide,” demanding the expulsion of the country's charge d'affaires.
Meanwhile in Doha, demonstrators rejecting Hizbullah fighting alongside Syria President Bashar Assad's forces in the neighboring country also held a protest in front of the Lebanese embassy in Qatar's capital.
Syrian regime forces backed by elite Hizbullah fighters on Wednesday managed to recapture the strategic town of Qusayr near Lebanon's border from rebel hands following a fierce assault.
And on Saturday the Eastern Bweida village, the last rebel bastion in the area, was seized by Syrian forces, bringing the entire Qusayr region near the border with Lebanon back under regime control.
Only 10 kilometers from Lebanon, Qusayr is strategic for the regime and Hizbullah because of its proximity to the border and because it lies on a route linking Damascus to the the regime's bastion on the Syrian coast.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah had previously justified the group's involvement in Syria by saying they were defending Lebanese-inhabited border villages inside Syria and Shiite holy sites in the Damascus province.
But during a May 25 speech marking the 13th anniversary of Israel's military withdrawal from Lebanon, Nasrallah said the hardline Takfiris are the “most prevailing group in the Syrian opposition,” warning against a defeat against them in the ongoing war in Syria.
He said: “If Syria falls in the hands of the Takfiris and the United States, the resistance will become under a siege and Israel will enter Lebanon. If Syria falls, the Palestinian cause will be lost.”
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