Nasrallah warns Israel of ‘extensive damage’ in case of war
The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement warned the Israeli regime about an extensively destructive response if it launched a ground invasion of the country.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks on Wednesday, addressing a rally held in the Lebanese capital Beirut on the occasion of Ashura, which commemorates the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shia Imam, Press TV reported.
“If your tanks come to Lebanon and south Lebanon, you will not have a shortage of tanks, as you will no longer have any tanks left,” he said.
Hezbollah and the Israeli regime have been exchanging deadly fire since early October last year.
The firefight began after the regime launched a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip that came following Operation al-Aqsa Storm, a surprise foray by the Gaza-based resistance groups.
Hezbollah has vowed to keep up its retaliatory attacks as long as the Israeli regime continued its war on Gaza, which has so far killed over 38,700 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Nasrallah noted how Hezbollah’s operations had exacted a heavy toll on the regime.
“The toll includes 9,254 individuals, among them officers and soldiers, with 3,000 amputees, 650 paralyzed, 185 completely blind, and several thousand others suffering severe psychological trauma,” he said.
“Our front in Lebanon will remain active as long as the aggression against Gaza, its people, and its resistance continues in all its forms,” Nasrallah asserted.
In the same context, he cautioned that potential continuation of the regime’s aggression against Gaza would prompt the Lebanese resistance to start targeting “new Israeli settlements that were previously untouched.”
Hezbollah’s leader noted how resistance groups hailing from Yemen and Iraq had joined to launch similar retaliatory operations against the regime.
He commented on the Yemeni operations that have been targeting Israeli ships and the vessels heading towards the ports of the occupied Palestinian territories in support of war-hit Palestinians in Gaza.
“Yemen has successfully imposed a blockade on the port of Eilat (in the southern part of the occupied territories), leading to its declaration of bankruptcy and causing shipping prices to soar highly. This has had serious repercussions for the entity,” Nasrallah said.
“For the first time…, the Israeli entity is experiencing its worst days. For the first time, Israel appears unable to achieve its goals and is attempting to cover up its failures by committing massacres and killing civilians,” he remarked.
'A hell with no return'
Iran’s interim foreign minister also warned that Lebanon will “definitely be a hell with no return for the Zionists,” if the Israeli regime dares expand its brutal war on the Gaza Strip to the Arab country and other fronts in the region.
Ali Bagheri Kani made the statement while speaking to reporters after a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the United Nations headquarters in New York on
Tuesday.
“The Zionists cannot make up for their losses in Gaza by expanding their war mongering in other areas in the region, rather they will be plunging themselves deeper into the swamp of much more serious risks,” the top Iranian diplomat said.