Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, says Daesh terrorists who left the border region between Lebanon and Syria had no choice, but to submit to resistance fighters.
According to Press TV, the leader of Hezbollah said in a televised address on Monday explaining about evacuation of Daesh terrorists from Qalamoun region near the border with Syria “Daesh had no choice, but to submit to us, because they had collapsed from within and had to accept our conditions.”
Nasrallah pointed out that the battle against Daesh terrorists in Qalamoun has achieved all its objectives, describing the evacuation of the Takfiris from the rugged mountainous region as “the second victory” as Lebanon-Syria border region has been completed purged of their presence.
He went on to say that the fight against Daesh is a battle and not an act of personal vengeance, praising the Lebanese army soldiers for their successful operation against Daesh.
The Hezbollah chief also described Takfiri terrorism as part of a US-Israeli plot in the region, stating that Washington and Tel Aviv sponsor terrorists in order to dictate their hegemony in the Middle East region.
On August 19, Hezbollah and the Syrian army launched an operation to purge Daesh from Qalamoun, located about 330 kilometers (205 miles) north of the Syrian Capital, Damascus.
Hezbollah launched a major push on July 21 to clear both sides of Lebanon's border with Syria of “armed terrorists.”
Earlier on Monday, Daesh terrorists and their families began evacuating Syria's strategic and mountainous Qalamoun region, heading towards eastern part of the country as part of a negotiated deal to end the extremists’ presence near the Lebanese border.
Lebanese and Syrian media reported that an unidentified number of terrorists and their families headed in buses toward the Daesh-controlled city of al-Bukamal, which lies on the Euphrates River in Syria’s Eastern Province of Dayr al-Zawr and near the border with Iraq.
The media bureau of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement said ambulances ferried 25 wounded Daesh Takfiris from the area.
On Sunday, the Syrian government agreed to a deal between Hezbollah and Daesh, which allows the transfer of Takfiri terrorists from Qalamoun to eastern Syria.
Nasrallah stated that there were about 670 ordinary people along with 26 injured ones and 380 Daesh terrorists among those who left Qalamoun region on Monday.
Referring to recent discovery of the bodies of a number of Lebanese soldiers who had been in captivity of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group since 2014, Nasrallah said all parties involved in expelling terrorists were unanimous that without shedding light on the fate of Lebanese soldiers, any victory would be defective.
