Nasrallah: Fighting has entered ‘a new phase’ after Israeli assassinations

According to The Iran Project, in a speech broadcast at the funeral of Shukr on Thursday, the Hezbollah chief said Israel has “crossed red lines” in the assassinations and that it must expect “rage and revenge on all the fronts supporting Gaza.”

Nasrallah said he had ordered Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon to curb operations on Wednesday and Thursday but that they would resume with higher intensity on Friday.

A number of countries had asked Hezbollah to retaliate in an “acceptable” way or not at all. But he said it would be “impossible” for the group not to respond, he added.

“There is no discussion on this point. The only things lying between us and you are the days, the nights and the battlefield,” Nasrallah added in an address to Israel.

“I’m not saying we reserve the right to respond at the appropriate time and place,” said Nasrallah. “Absolutely not. We will respond. That’s final.”

Nasrallah reiterated that Hezbollah was not behind the Saturday rocket attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights in which 12 children were killed.

He said Hezbollah would have admitted if it had made a mistake and killed civilians, and suggested it could have been an Israeli interceptor that hit Majdal Shams.

Israel, he said, deliberately carried out the rocket attack in order to make up an excuse for the assassination of resistance commanders.

“The motive behind the Majdal al-Shams rocket strike was to pit the Druze community in the occupied Golan Heights against local Shia Muslims. Hezbollah would have acknowledged responsibility had it committed a mistake that led to the death of civilians,” Nasrallah said.

Reporter : Editorial of The Iran Project