The United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued a statement on Monday denying information published on Al-Arabiya website last week.
“The UNHCR has categorically denied the information published on the website of Al-Arabiya news channel on August 5 quoting French sources and attributing inaccurate statements to UNHCR,” said the statement, adding, “The same statement draws reference to a report which the High Commissioner for Refugees has no connection to, and which has also recently been carried in newspapers in Lebanon.”
Al-Arabiya television reported on Friday that a UN commission linked to the UNHCR announced that Iran and Hezbollah are “involved in killing Syrian soldiers who refuse to shoot at protesters.”
According to Al-Arabiya, the commission said it will publish a detailed report “in the coming days.”
Hezbollah on Sunday issued a statement denouncing as false the unreleased UNHCR committee report.
“Hezbollah condemns the false accusations… and considers them as a proof that some international organizations are involved in a plot that targets the powers that are against the Zionist-American project in the region,” the statement said.
The party also called on “the United Nations and all its institutions to be credible and accurate with its reports and statements so that they do not become instigator for unrests and strife.”
At least 1,583 civilians and 369 members of the army and security forces have been killed since mid-March in Syria, according to a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights toll.
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