Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah as seen during his speech on Al-Manar TV on August 28.
On August 28, Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel against carrying out any assassination on Lebanese soil, vowing that the response will be severe.
“For any Israeli assassination against a Lebanese, Palestinian, Iranian person or anyone else, that is carried out on Lebanese territory — there will be a severe reaction and we will not be silent about it,” the leader said during a speech marking the anniversary of the 2006 war with Israel. “We will not allow a return to assassinations in Lebanon and we will not accept changes to the rules of conflict. Israel must understand this.”
The threat came after reports said that the Israeli security cabinet agreed to resume the assassinations of Palestinian leaders during a meeting that was held earlier this month to discuss the surge in deadly attacks in the occupied West Bank.
Deputy head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas Movement, Saleh al-Arouri, said during an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV that was aired on August 25 that any Israeli targeted killing would spark a “regional war.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mocked al-Arouri’s threat on August 27, accusing him and other Palestinian leaders of hiding.
The premier “heard the verbiage by the senior Hamas official Arouri, from his hiding place in Lebanon. He knows very well why he and his colleagues are in hiding,” he said at the outset of his weekly cabinet meeting.
“Hamas and the other Iranian proxies understand very well that we will fight with all means against their attempts to use terrorism against us – in Judea and Samaria, Gaza and everywhere else,” Netanyahu said, referring to the West Bank and the Palestinian coastal enclave ruled by Hamas. “Whoever tries to hurt us, whoever finances and organizes, whoever dispatches terrorists against Israel, will pay the full price.”
Also during his speech, Nasrallah responded to recent accusations by Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that “Iran and its cancerous proxies” were behind the recent surge in attacks in the West Bank.
“Facing the resistance’s escalation in the West Bank, Netanyahu wanted to blame Iran and created a reality in which the whole situation in the West Bank is an Iranian plot and the Palestinians are just Tehran’s tool,” the leader said. “That is, of course, an insult to the intelligence of the whole world and of Israelis. They don’t understand that the resistance in the West Bank is purely a Palestinian decision.”
Israel was at an “existential, strategic dead end,” Nasrallah explained, adding that “the only solution is for Israel to leave this land.”
Israel has for long used assassinations as a means to deter and intimidate Palestinian armed factions. Nevertheless, it has refrained from conducting any military or security operations on Lebanese soil after the 2006 war. Hezbollah has responded to nearly all Israeli overt and covert attacks on the country since then.
Today, many senior leaders of Hamas and other Palestinian factions are based in Lebanon, protected by the deterrence established by Hezbollah.
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nasrallah states a firm reality while biden and netanyahu sit on their porches strumming their banjos while taking elixirs and refuse to rethink the mistake which is israel.
that is how do you speak with statanistic cancer psychopaths, like hezbollah do.
but cockroaches always threatened.but retaliate never happened