Nasrallah: Attacks to go on; shepherd hurt in Hezbollah strike

The spiritual leader of the militant the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, said Monday that its attacks on the Shaaba Farms "are continuing" despite international pressure.

"It is an open front... even if some do not approve and think it breaches what is the [the UN-drawn border] Blue Line," Nasrallah told a group of Hezbollah students in Beirut's southern suburbs, a clear reference to comments by the United Nations representative in Lebanon, Steffan de Mistura.

Mistura said Sunday that, "we urge the Lebanese authorities to prove with facts what it means to guarantee that the Blue Line does not become a red hot line."

"Who told Mr. de Mistura that the person who is fighting in Shaaba cares if the Blue Line becomes red or brown. This is occupied Lebanese land and it's our right to liberate it," Nasrallah said.

Israel seized the Shaaba Farms, along with neighboring Har Dov, from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War along with the neighboring Golan Heights.