Hezbollah foreign relations fashion of bin Laden, we do not endorse them. And many of the operations that they have carried out, we condemned them very clearly." Michel Samaha, Lebanon's former minister of information, has said that Hezbollah has been an important ally of the government in the war against terrorist groups, and described the "American attempt to link Hezbollah to al-Qaeda" to be "astonishing". As part of a surge of intersectarian support for Hezbollah during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's deputy leader, called for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Zionists and join the fighting in Lebanon.
Hezbollah foreign relations bombing and the organizations involvement in Syrian civil war supporting the Ba'ath government. Two EU countries have imposed partial or complete prohibitions on Hezbollah. The Netherlands has proscribed the organisation fully, while the United Kingdom has proscribed Hezbollah's paramilitary External Security Organization, but not the organisation's political wing. Switzerland, owing to its Swiss neutrality, does not regard Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Its government only uses the Sanctions List provided by the United Nations. Dan Gillerman, the Israeli representative at UN, referred to Hezbollah as a "cancerous growth" that must be removed. The Israeli Government considers the use of military