Hezbollah denies involvement in missile fired at Saudi Arabia

BEIRUT: The head of Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah movement denied on Monday his group was involved in the firing of a missile from Yemen into Saudi Arabia earlier this month. “No one from Lebanon’s Hezbollah has anything to do with the launch of this missile,” Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address. “I categorically deny this accusation, which is not based on truth or evidence.”
Meanwhile, Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas rejected on Monday an Arab League resolution labelling Lebanon’s Hezbollah a terrorist organisation. In a statement the party said it “rejects the description of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement as terrorist.” Instead, it added, Israel’s actions against Palestinians should be labelled “terrorism.” It also called on Arab states to “support the legitimate struggle of the Palestinian people” and urged them to work together to solve their differences through dialogue. On Sunday Arab League members adopted a resolution saying they would hold the “terrorist Lebanese Hezbollah... responsible for supporting terrorism and terrorist organisations in Arab countries, with modern weapons and ballistic missiles”.