Nasrallah vows severe response to devices carnage, says Israel can't return residents with war
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday that Israel will receive "just punishment" for the communications device explosions that killed 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000 over two days.
Israel will face "tough retribution and just punishment, where it expects it and where it does not," Nasrallah said in his first speech since the blasts, adding that he would not give further details of the place, timing or nature of Hezbollah's response.
Even as he delivered his televised address, Israeli warplanes violently broke the sound barrier over Beirut after flying at low altitude and releasing heat-deflecting balloons.
Nasrallah added that Israel will not be able to return residents of the north displaced by 11 months of cross-border exchanges to their homes through military escalation.
"You will not be able to return the people of the north to the north," Nasrallah said addressing Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. He warned that "no military escalation, no killings, no assassinations and no all-out war can return residents to the border."
“The only way to return the displaced to the north is to halt the aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank,” Nasrallah said.
Nasrallah also announced the launch of an internal probe into the explosion of the hundreds of communication devices used by group operatives across Lebanon.
Admitting that the deadly device explosions was “a major, harsh and unprecedented blow” to Hezbollah, Nasrallah stressed that “this major and powerful blow has not and will not defeat us.”
“We have received messages that the objective behind this strike is to halt the fighting on the Lebanese front, and threats that there will be more if we don’t stop,” he said, reassuring that “the broad bombings did not affect the resistance’s structure.”
“Readiness was high on the ground as a precaution for any military action,” he revealed.
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It's clear that Israel is not interested in conflict with Lebanon and that Lebanon is the aggressor. Hezbollah is ruling the country now and is making the decisions for the country. The LAF and nominal "government" are powerless and figureheads.
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Israel can take out this Iranian loving clown anytime they want. I wish they would go ahead and do it and rid us of his filth. He has destroyed Lebanon because of his allegiance to iran.
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The Lebanese people need to revolt and drive them out. I am a Shiite and I am so ashamed to be one nowadays.
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MTV is losing its compass. George Ghanem at Sar El Waket is becoming mouthpiece for Hizbollah. He can’t even see the difference between communities seeking democracy and HizbIran/duo that transformed its community into brainwashed Houthis-type part of Iran Foreign Legion. George Ghanem is a disgrace that justifies Lebanon occupation by the Basij and the destruction of our economy, sovereignty, university, health care, justice, banking and all state institutions. He is an apologist for the occupation force that destroyed Lebanon and brainwashed a whole community. George Ghanem are the like are indirectly responsible for the misery of million Lebanese.
WHO LIVE BY THE SWORD DIE BY THE SWORD. Important not to mix martyrs like Rafiq Hariri, Tueni, Shath, Jemayel & others armed by Iran radicals & acting as Iran Foreign Legion working against Lebanon interests. They were duped & did not liberate but occupy Lebanon transforming it into another Houthis Iranian rocket base, a banana republic and beggar nation with no dignity or respect where millions are suffering every day, barely providing food for their family, unable to pay for medicine, or forced to live in misery or exile away from loved ones. Netanyahu and Nassralah are two sides of the same coin, worshiper of violence and destruction, depending on each other to remain in power, sacrificing a generation of Palestinians. Netanyahu close elections were all thanks to Hizbollah and its Iranian rockets. Sad so many young Lebanese were brainwashed by Basij and paying the consequence. We contributed to Red Cross for their relief, not Hizb leaders destroying Lebanon. Wake up people!