The Hezbollah secretary-general said that the enemies are trying to create the absurd notion that the Lebanese resistance group’s strikes against Israeli military positions in the northern side of the 1948 occupied territories are unrelated to the bloody onslaught on Gaza.
Delivering a televised speech at a Wednesday funeral ceremony held in commemoration of several Hezbollah fighters fallen in recent Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah’s retaliatory strikes have played a pivotal role in the course of the struggle against Israel.
He said the strikes have inflicted material, moral and psychological losses on the occupying regime.
“One of the strongest indications of the effectiveness of the Lebanese front is the outcry, threats and intimidation we hear from Israeli authorities as well as illegal settlers,” Nasrallah said.
“If this front were not effective, why are certain international parties seeking to detach it from the Gaza conflict?”
Nasrallah then paid homage to high-ranking Hezbollah field commander Sami Abdallah, better known by the nom the guerre Abu Taleb, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes against a house in Lebanon’s southern town of Jwaya last week.
The Hezbollah chief went on to highlight the spiritual gift of martyrdom, stating that Abu Taleb played an important role in the Lebanese resistance group.
He said Hezbollah is now more determined to confront the Zionist enemy, terming his group’s response to the latest Israeli strikes as “fairly strong and befitting.”
