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Hezbollah chief says he hopes new Syrian government will consider Israel an 'enemy'

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has said that he hopes the new Syrian government will consider Israel an "enemy" and not normalise ties with it.

In a televised address, Qassem pointed to Israel's seizure of a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights as "evidence" that Syria is facing "a dangerous expansionist enemy".

He added that he hoped for “cooperation between the peoples and governments in Syria and Lebanon”.