Lebanon’s Hezbollah Condemns Terrorist Attack in France
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah Resistance Movement deplored a recent deadly terrorist attack in the French coastal city of Nice, which killed at least 84 people, describing it as an “aftershock” of terrorism in the Middle East region.
The attack opened yet another chapter of terrorism that is spreading in the world and targeting the entire humanity not a specific religion or group, Hezbollah said in a statement on Saturday, according to the Arabic-language Al-Manar news channel.
“The terrorist operations that some Western countries are witnessing are the aftershocks of the terrorism that is underway in our region and has shed the blood of our nations,” the statement read.
Such criminal acts remind countries across the world that they must fulfill their duty to uproot terrorism and destroy all sources of funding and supporting terror groups.
A French-Tunisian criminal well known to the police for armed attack killed at least 84 people when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd that had watched Bastille Day fireworks in Nice late on Thursday.
Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group claimed responsibility Saturday for the attack by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel.
The Aamaq news agency, a Daesh-run media outlet, on Saturday cited a "security source" as saying the attacker “carried out the operation in response to calls to target the citizens of coalition countries fighting” the Daesh.
French authorities said they were checking the claim.