(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The leader of Lebanon's Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) Michel Aoun told a local radio station on Sunday during a talk about the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war that, “We cannot survive as a country without this resisting strength or without the support of the resistance.”
He added: “This is where formula of the people, the army and the resistance comes from. Those three are united and connected to each other against the enemy.”
Pointing to the future of Lebanon as in close connection with the continuity of the resistance, the FPM leader warned against the aggressive character of Israel and its wish to “control and expand.”
Israel's all-out offensive on southern Lebanon in July 2006, also known as the 33-Day War, resulted in the death of about 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians.
Israel violates Lebanon's airspace on an almost daily basis.
Lebanon's government, the Hezbollah resistance movement, and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, have repeatedly condemned the overflights, saying they are in clear violation of UN Resolution 1701 and the country's sovereignty.
UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel in 2006, calls on Tel Aviv to respect Beirut's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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