by Ahram Online
Egypt's upper house of parliament urges Hezbollah fighters to withdraw from Syria, where they are supporting embattled regime
Reda Fahmi, the head of the national security committee within Egypt’s Islamist-led Shura Council, denounced the ongoing intervention by Hezbollah fighters in Syria, accusing the Lebanese political group of committing “criminal actions against the unarmed Syrian people.”
“The intervention by Hezbollah is a serious threat to the region’s peacefulness and security,” said Fahmi in a press statement released on Wednesday, stressing that the Lebanese fighters “will pay a high price for their intervention.”
On Saturday, secretary-general of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah officially declared that members of his group are involved in the fighting in Syria “against Islamic extremists who pose a danger to Lebanon.”
As a result, Hezbollah has been slammed with criticism for supporting the regime of Bashar Al-Assad.
Nasrallah responded to the criticism by saying that Hezbollah is accused of intervening in the Syria conflict by “sending a few fighters” when none have spoken of the tens of thousands of “Islamic extremists” from all over the world that have gone to Syria to fight the regime.
On Sunday, a source close to Hezbollah revealed to AFP that the at least 110 members of the group have been killed in Syria in recent months, most of them in the town of Qusayr.
Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi is scheduled to attend the Geneva 2 peace conference on 15-16 June that will looks at ways of putting an end to the conflict.
On 12 May the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 80,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict since it erupted more than two years ago.
Ahram Online
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