Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaking on September 19, 2024 (Al-Manar TV\Screenshot)
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel for the coordinated pager and walkie-talkie blasts in Lebanon on September 17 and 18, saying that the sabotage attack “violated all red lines.”
In a televised speech on September 19, Nasrallah called the attack, which killed 37 people and wounded more than 3,450 others, “an unprecedented massacre.”
“On Tuesday, Israel intended to kill 4,000 people in one minute by detonating the pagers. Many of them were civilians. The following day, 1,000 more in one minute. In two minutes, Israel intended to kill 5,000,” the Lebanese leader said.
“We have suffered a heavy blow. This is war, this is conflict. We know the enemy, not only Israel but also the US and NATO, has technological superiority,” he added.
In addition, Nasrallah vowed that Hezbollah will prevent Israel from realizing the recently-added war objective to return Israelis displaced from the border area in the north to their homes.
“The goal of the resistance is to prevent the enemy from realizing its goals. Its latest objective is to return settlers to their homes in the north of occupied Palestine,” the leader said.
“Let me tell the Israeli government, the Israeli army and the Israeli people: You will not manage. I tell Prime Minister Netanyahu: You can do what you want, you will not manage. The only solution is to halt the aggression against the people of Gaza. No military escalation, no killings, no total war will return your settlers to the border area. You know it,” he added.
Nasrallah further dismisses the idea recently put forward by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Northern Command head Major General Ori Gordin to create a buffer zone in southern Lebanon earlier this week, calling Gordin an “imbecile.”
The leader said that he hopes Israeli forces will enter southern Lebanon, because it will create an “historic opportunity” for Hezbollah.
In addition, Nasrallah vowed retaliation for the unprecedented sabotage attack against communications devices held by Hezbollah members.
“There will be a just punishment. I will not say when, where or how. You will know when the time comes,” he said. “The news is in what you will see, not in what you will hear.”
During the speech, Israeli fighter jets flew at a low altitude and dropped flares over the Lebanese capital, Beirut, in an apparent message to Hezbollah.
Furthermore, the IDF announced another wave of strikes against Lebanon after the death of two troops in attacks claimed by Hezbollah. Hebrew media also reported that the Israeli Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi held an assessment and approved battle plans for the northern front.
All in all, Israel appears to be preparing to escalate its operations against Hezbollah which has been launching attacks against the IDF in support of the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the war on the Palestinian enclave last October. No level of escalation will likely manage to force the group to cease its operations.
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israel is desperate. and israel already abused all of the american goodwill with the iraq war quagmire. it’s highly unlikely that the us military would commit significant military forces to aide israel in case of all-out war. which is what israel is betting on…
i don’t think they are desperate. i think that the “most moral army” in the world is playing this war more or less as a research game to collect data, inventing new strategies and military doctrines. including ai and automation. very sad to say that but bombing gaza to the dust was more a military simulation then anything else. they don’t care about people. they need real world data to confirm their research and simulations. it is a new human low but who cares.
the testing of ai and emerging technologies are tested in the ukraine-russia frontline. that’s the most technically advanced frontline in history. drones with ai targeting capabilities, electronic warfare; jamming , etc.
putting explosives in communication devices is a black op tactic and a cheap ploy. and unsustainable. and if it’s considered a new doctrine: it only serves to set cement state terrorism as a new standard. targeting civilians and state sponsored terrorism is something which is an israeli trademark anyway.
israel will regret it when the muslims feel existentially threatened and begin to target israeli civilians in a tit-for-tat. something which they have warned that they are capable of numerous times.
i’d not be such kind and nice to this hook-nosed scum. nasrallah should start shooting down israel fighter jets, capture the parachuted out israeli terrorist flying the plane, and order him getting impaled the old muslim way. same way also vlad dracul treated the invading turks. this is the only language the jews understand.
the neocons that are running the usa and nato know what they are doing, they want war. they don’t care about the people nor the economy, they want world domination and power. they plan on starting nuclear wars because they have bunkers to hide in .. !
israel and ukraine are just pawns to get the world wars going so the neocons can dominate and have their build back better agenda new world order under their control.. their ultimate utopia..!
israel is not desperate, but after a year of war with huge losses of people, de-facto in the end! the us knows this and has sent aircraft carriers to the region.
israel is now playing the intimidation card, it has worked for 60 years now, but that time is over, the whole world sees the weakness of israel!
iran must keep its paper drones circling over israel day and night, enticing israel to fire its patriots, and the united states gets into a double problem: on the one hand, they have to supply israel, on the other hand, ukraine! you will not succeed in this!
at the same time, iran and the russian federation must upgrade the houtis, if it is possible for them. when the first us aircraft carrier burns, the entire house of cards collapses
i would agree that israel is desperate. their economy has taken a huge hit since october 7. you now have 60,000+ israeli startups and companies filing for bankruptcy, you have negative population growth with a million + leaving the “startup” nation, their military recruitment and readiness is terrible; foreign investment in decline, 200k israelis internally displaced
truth israel will devolve. the world isn’t in the 1990s when the usa rule everyone, else was their slave. the time is counting for israel own battlehole die, economy collapse on each other.
netanyahu is finished. he wanted war with lebanon, right? two of his soldiers are already in hell. israel gets bombarded till they are forced to enter lebanon. let’s see who cries this time.
the fact that they can just fly over lebanon at will is atributed to every arms deliverer in the world inkl. china and russia opting to obey isreals demand to not arm their enemys. while the west is busy all day arming the enemies of china and russia.
sadly it seems that there are still too many dreaming on in the russian and chinese general command and leadership, instead of boosting theyr support for theyr allies worldwide.
yes, and now the 6 mio dollar question. why is that ?
why is russia and china obeying to israel – resp. to what the jews are saying and ordering ? i told you people here already 10 years ago. russia as well as china are fully ruled by world jewry !!! communism is an ideology created by jews and implemented into russia and china by force !!! russian didn t want that shit and chinese people dint want it too…
but world jewry sent its agents trotzky (real name leo bronstein resp. braunstein), lenin (relative of rabbi moses blank)etc. and later to china they sent mao tse dong (who was trained via henry kissinger and yale-china association). it s all jewish ! that’s what you need to understand and see the whole picture. see also: https://2cm.es/ptnru
careful folks, the eunuch haznobollah terrorists seek revenge 😆
may their revenge strike their enemies own twice as hard on themselves.
they cannot do it over damascus due pantsir systems deployed…
big wars there will significantly impact ukraine which is good for everyone living on the european continent.
“the mass detonation of pagers which killed several people and left thousands of others injured in lebanon on tuesday was an act of “monstrous terrorism,” russian officials
once again, russia is on the side of international law and of righteousness. and once again: russia is the adult in the room. i just hope that the rest of europe stands up to the lawless insidiousness before it’s too late.
you had you chance nasrallah and you blew it.
time for china and tussia to arm hezbollah to an extent similar to what the west is doing in ukraine. differencey is that ukraine is a large country whereas the occupied palestine is a little blot on the map. reasonable number of kinzahls and other serious stuff and the jews will be.homeless once again. it will be time for hurray, no friggin jews anywhere.
when the lebanese get modern air defence equipment its game over for israel.
israel wins again!!!