Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah vowed in a televised speech on Tuesday that the Lebanese group would have a “strong” response to the Israeli killing of a high-level Hezbollah commander.
Nasrallah delivered the speech during a ceremony that marked one week after the Hezbollah commander, Fuah Shukr, was killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Beirut neighborhood of Dahieh, along with two women and two children.
Moments before Nasrallah began his speech, Israeli jets broke the sound barrier over Beirut, letting out sonic booms over the city, which has a population of about 2.4 million. Nasrallah denounced the move as a “petty” provocation.
“We have not sought escalations until now, we have been fighting in support of Gaza but keeping in mind the Lebanese national interest,” Nasrallah said. “But an assassination of a top leader in the Dahieh must be treated differently … Our response is coming, God willing, from us and the axis of resistance — and it will be strong.”
The “axis of resistance” refers to Hezbollah and Iran’s allies in the region, including Shia militias based in Iraq and the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, who govern the most populous areas of Yemen.
Iran is preparing to respond to the Israeli killing of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. The US and Israel are expecting Iran’s reprisal to be a major attack that will be coordinated with Hezbollah and its other allies.
The US has vowed to defend Israel from any attack, which Nasrallah mentioned in his speech. “When Iran and Hezbollah spoke of retaliating against Israel for its atrocities, the US affirmed its commitment to defend the Zionist entity,” Nasrallah said, “The occupation relies on the United States and Western countries for protection as it is unable to defend itself.”
Meanwhile, tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Hezbollah across the border continued on Tuesday. Israeli airstrikes targeted the village of Maifadoun in southern Lebanon, killing five people, including four Hezbollah fighters.
Later in the day, Hezbollah launched drones into northern Israel, and at least 19 people were wounded, including six soldiers. The Israeli military said that most of the casualties were caused by an Israeli interceptor rocket that missed and hit the ground.
They need to close Haifa harbor and turn the lights off in as much of Israel as possible. 72 hours of electrical grid disruption will end this Israeli regime..
"I know. It is so easy to start war and so difficult to stop it." …No. That was Churchill. He said that to me with a smile on his face like he was ejaculating in his pants.
Easier said than done. And do you think Israel will not respond to this level of attack? For those like you rooting for an attack on Israel, just don't respond with the genocide chant when Israel hits back.
Iran and Russia aim for opposing military centers and avoid targeting civilians. They know the struggle against the US military dictatorship is not quick and easy. They also know the US is operating far from home on borrowed gas money,
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The families of 10,000 plus Ukrainian civilians killed by Russia will disagree with your statement.
Hezbollah may be warming up for the clash. When Hezbollah sends rockets, Israel fires off defensive rockets. Those sites become known for future hits.
You do it works both ways. Each rocket fired by Hezbollah gives away their location. Who do you think has better detection technology and an air force that can respond in minutes? Take a guess.
I agree. Once Hezbollah gets satellite support, the game will be evened out.
The resistance members are coordinating a surprise attack…!
The "response" could take many forms. It need not be the obvious firing of rockets.
I hope they instead adopt a policy of assassinating Israel leaders. Tit-for-tat killing. It is better than war, and might work better.
That should have been done before now, for years. It's too late for that now. Most of the Israeli leaders are in bunkers according to reports yesterday.
Now it's time for major destruction of Israeli military and civilian infrastructure of the sort the US is lauded for doing to many Third World countries.
Assassination Israel leaders is not so easy. But I could not blame them for trying.
Just like Rocky IV.
Evil Blood does not run in Hezbollah or Iran leaders' veins…. It only flows in Zionist Israeli and some US leaders' veins
Sure. Iran only hanged some 300 + citizens this year. No evil blood there. And of course Hezbollah missiles are always aimed at military targets. No civilians are killed by their missiles. That would be evil.
"The Israeli military said that most of the casualties were caused by an Israeli interceptor rocket that missed and hit the ground."
It's amusing that when the Israelis want to suggest that Hezbollah's attacks are not effective, they claim it was heir own errant missile, but when they want to blame Hezbollah for killing kids as an excuse to escalate the war they claim it was not an errant Israel missile.
I can't wait for Hezbollah and Iran to obliterate Israel.
handala is watching…