BEIRUT: Future MP Jamal Jarrah has criticized Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah Wednesday for backing government negotiations with Islamist hostage takers after claims that Hezbollah had attempted to kill the jihadists.
“I didn’t get what Sayyed Nasrallah meant by negotiating with the kidnappers, particularly after targeting them with a rocket in an attempt to kill them,” Jarrah told a local radio station.
Jarrah also expressed his dismay at failure of the Lebanese authorities to clarify Tuesday’s incident.
The Nusra Front said a rocket crashed into the location used by the Islamist group as a detention center where the captured Lebanese servicemen were being held. It did not say where the attack took place.
A source acquainted with the militants confirmed the nighttime attack, but said the hostages were fine.
A military source, speaking to the local newspaper Al-Mustaqbal, dismissed reports the Lebanese Army had shelled the location.
In a speech late Tuesday, Nasrallah said the government should negotiate with Islamist militants holding at least 21 Lebanese soldiers and policemen hostage from a position of strength, warning that negotiating from a weak position would lead to a catastrophe.
He rejected accusations that Hezbollah opposed negotiations with the militants to secure the release of the hostages.
Nasrallah also called on rival factions to keep the hostage ordeal away from their political bickering and rivalry, adding that the kidnappers were playing with Lebanon’s fate in view of the confusion within the government over how to approach the hostage crisis.
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