A Syrian lawmaker Wednesday defended Hezbollah's targeting of an Israeli military convoy earlier in the day, saying the response was a normal retaliation to the latest Israeli attack that killed six Hezbollah fighters in Syria.
"The response by Hezbollah against the Israeli aggression is normal because it's the right of Hezbollah to respond against any aggression or escalation from the Israeli side," Sharif Shehadeh, a prominent legislator, told Xinhua news agency Wednesday.
Hezbollah fighters attacked an Israeli military convoy in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms in southern Lebanon earlier Wednesday, leaving an undisclosed number of causalities among the Israeli soldiers.
Hezbollah said in a statement aired on its official mouthpiece, al-Manar TV, that "at 11.35 this morning, the Quneitra martyrs squad of the Islamic Resistance targeted an Israeli army convoy composed of a number of vehicles and a number of Zionist officers and soldiers, with the appropriate missiles, which led to the destruction of many vehicles and the injury of many enemy soldiers".
The attack was clearly Hezbollah's retaliation to the Israeli attack that targeted a group of Hezbollah fighters in Syria's southern province of Qunaitera, killing six of them.
The parliamentarian said that Israel, even though trying to drag the region into further chaos, did not have an interest in engaging in full-blown war.
The fresh attack Wednesday also came a day after Israeli forces shelled Syrian military positions in Qunaitera, leaving only material losses, according to the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV.
The Israeli firing came after two rockets were launched from Syria and landed in open territories in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
