[News] Hezbollah chief says Israel pushed resistance to open battle 'on all fronts'

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Hezbollah chief says Israel pushed resistance to open battle 'on all
fronts'

Nasrallah pledged that Hezbollah's response to Israel killing a top
commander in Beirut 'will not be symbolic or a formality'

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

AUG 1, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/hezbollah-chief-says-israel-pushed-resistance-to-open-battle-on-all-fronts
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The Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, announced on 1 August
that the Lebanese resistance is no longer just "a support front” in the
fight against Israel and that the response to the assassination of top
commander Fuad Shukr “is a foregone conclusion.”

“We are beyond the stage of being a 'support front'; we are now in an open
battle against the Israeli enemy, on all frontiers – we have entered a new
stage,” Nasrallah said, stressing that operations during the next several
days “are not a response to the martyrdom of Mr. Fuad Shukr.”

“The enemy and those behind the enemy must await our inevitable response
[to Shukr's killing], no discussion or debate, and between us are the days,
nights, and the battlefield," the resistance leader added, calling the attack
on Dahye
<https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-bombs-residential-building-south-of-beirut-leaving-dozens-of-casualties>
“part of the US-Israeli war on our region” and stressing that “there will
be no solution except to stop the aggression on Gaza
<https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-jets-rain-fire-across-gaza-on-300th-day-of-genocide>
.”

“The enemy does not know where our response will come from, whether from
the north or south of Palestine, and whether it will be separate or
simultaneous [with the rest of the Resistance Axis] … We will carry out a
real, practical response – it will not be a symbolic response or a
formality.”

“You (Israel) will cry a lot because you do not know which red lines you
have crossed,” Nasrallah said during a televised speech delivered as part
of the funeral proceedings for Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli
airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut earlier this week.

He then reminded Israeli authorities that the resistance can “quickly fill
any vacancy in our organizational structure, we have a generation of
well-trained commanders … Assassination of the leaders doesn’t affect us;
experience shows that the resistance grows and thrives.”

Nasrallah also spoke out against the Israeli claim that Shukr was behind
the attack that killed 12 civilians
<https://thecradle.co/articles/druze-in-occupied-golan-tell-israel-no-war-in-the-name-of-our-children>
over the weekend in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, saying Tel Aviv
“refuses to accept that what happened in Majdal Shams would be caused by an
Israeli interceptor missile.”

“We have enough courage to admit if [the Majdal Shams incident] was our
mistake,” Nasrallah highlighted.

The Hezbollah leader later spoke about the assassination of Hamas politburo
chief Ismail Haniyeh
<https://thecradle.co/articles/entire-resistance-axis-will-respond-to-haniyeh-assassination-irgc>
in Tehran, saying that the Islamic Republic “considers Haniyeh’s
assassination as an attack on its national security and sovereignty.”

“Do [the Israelis] really imagine that they would kill Ismail Haniyeh in
Tehran and Iran would keep mum?” Nasrallah wondered, stressing that “Imam
Khamenei's words after the assassination of Haniyeh are harsher than those
after the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus because it was an
attack inside Iran. Imam Khamenei considers it an issue of honor.”

Nasrallah finished his speech by reminding supporters and adversaries of
Hezbollah that “Our commanders, fighters, women, and children will be
martyred; we are united in sacrifice – this is the reality of resistance,
and this is our path until the day of judgment.”
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