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Nasrallah: Shelling of the Shebaa Farms ‘came as a surprise’

Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah criticized the slow reaction of the international community to Israel’s shelling of Lebanon last week, while Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh said: “Lebanon will never relinquish” the occupied Shebaa Farms in the South.Speaking following a visit to senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah on Saturday, Nasrallah said the shelling of the Shebaa Farms by Israel on Thursday and Friday “came as a surprise” and his party had done nothing to instigate the violence. Nasrallah denied Hizbullah had retaliated against the attacks, but said a plan of action would be put in place to respond to any Israeli escalation. Full Story