Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Photo: Wiki Commons

Leaked documents cited Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah reassuring Israel last year that his Lebanon based terror group had no intention of taking action against the Jewish state, Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Wednesday.

The publication obtained the full transcript of a meeting between Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Bogdanov held on May 23, 2013. During their talk, the Syrian side passed along Nasrallah’s reassurances to Israel.

According to Bogdanov, Nasrallah told him, “You can tell the Israelis that Lebanon’s southern borders are the safest place in the world because all of our attention is focused on what is happening in Syria,” confirming that Hezbollah “does not harbor any intention of taking any action against Israel.”

Also present at the meeting was the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s department for Middle East and North Africa, Sergey Vershinin.

The leaked document quoted Vershinin asking Mekdad if he wanted to pass along any message of his own to the Israeli side.

“Our message to them is that we will not be silent in the face of any new attack,” Mekdad answered. “If next time they fire a rocket [into Syria], we will respond by firing several rockets [at Israeli targets]. We will not allow them to exploit our situation and we will provide Hezbollah with the sophisticated weapons it needs.”

Two weeks ago, on March 5, two Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists were identified attempting to plant an explosive device near the Israel-Syria border in the northern Golan Heights, The Algemeiner reported. Israeli forces responded immediately and fired towards the suspects, the IDF said in a statement.