The head of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, Naim Qassem, admitted on Saturday that his group had lost a supply route following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's friendly regime in neighboring Syria.
“Hezbollah has lost the military supply route through Syria. This is a small detail. The struggle is flexible and what is important is its continuity,” Qassem said in a televised address.
Last week, Islamist-led rebels in Syria advanced on the capital Damascus and forced al-Assad, who had ruled for more than two decades, to flee the country. .
The rebels' capture of Damascus came after they made major territorial gains in a lightning offensive in the war-torn country.
Al-Assad's ouster has dealt a blow to the so-called “axis of resistance” which consists of Iran's allies.
In addition to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the alliance against Israel includes militias in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen.
Qassem said his group would not judge the rebels, who are now in power in Syria, until they take a clear position and stabilize the situation in Syria.
“We hope that the new regime in Syria will consider Israel as an enemy and not have ties with it,” he said.
Last month, Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire after intense negotiations to end more than a year of cross-border conflict.
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