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Hezbollah Chief Owns Up to Border Attack

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah claimed responsibility for last month's attack on an Israeli border patrol on the Golan Heights, which injured four soldiers.

Nasrallah said the attack was "part of the response to an Israeli attack on one of the resistance posts [terror infrastructure] in the Janta area on the Syria-Lebanon border," the Israeli daily YNet quoted the Lebanese paper As-Safir.

"The Israelis understood the message well," the fiery Shi'ite terror chief continued, calling it Israel's "attempt to take advantage of the current situation and Hezbollah's involvement in the fighting in Syria."

Nasrallah said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime will not be overthrown and accused Israel of starting the civil war, which began as a massive popular uprising against the Assad regime in March 2011 during the so-called Arab Spring.

Hezbollah, often referred to as Iran's Lebanese proxy, joined forces with Syria, also a close ally of Iran.

Over time, jihadists affiliated with al Qaeda and other Islamic terror groups also joined opposition fighters in what became a bloody civil war that has claimed more than 150,000 lives and sent millions of Syrian refugees fleeing to Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.

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