He Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday that Israel had crossed all “limits” and “red lines” with the explosion of “thousands” of beepers and walkie-talkies of members of the group and promised “harsh reprisals” against the Hebrew country.
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Israel will face “harsh retaliation and just punishment, both where it expects it and where it does not expect it,” Nasrallah said in his first speech since the attacks, adding that he would not give any details about “the time, place or type” of retaliation faced.
At the same time, The leader of the Lebanese Shiite group acknowledged that the Lebanese Islamist organization suffered “a hard and unprecedented blow” with the explosion of their communications equipment, although he assured that the events of this week will make them “stronger.”
‘The enemy wanted to kill no less than 5,000 people’: Nasrallah
In this operation, the enemy surpassed all limits, laws and red lines.
Pager and walkie-talkie explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday left 37 dead and nearly 3,000 injured. The Shiite movement blames Israel for this unprecedented attack, which is a serious blow to the organisation, although Israel remains silent on the incident.
“On Tuesday, the Israeli enemy targeted thousands of beeper devices that were denoted at the same time. The enemy crossed all boundaries, laws and red lines in this operation, and they did not care at all.” Nasrallah denounced during the televised speech.
Nasrallah said that “the enemy wanted to kill no less than 5,000 people” by blowing up, for two days in a row, the beepers and walkie-talkies of members of the powerful Lebanese movement.
“Some of the explosions took place in hospitals, pharmacies, markets, shops, houses, cars, streets where there are thousands of civilians, women and children. They wanted to target Hezbollah members, but they also targeted the entire environment around them,” he added.
He wanted to attack Hezbollah members, but he also targeted the entire environment around them.
According to Nasrala, the first wave of explosions on Tuesday affected about 4,000 beepers, although he did not confirm that all of them exploded. as some were out of service or had not been distributed, he implied.
On Wednesday, new devices in the hands of members of the group exploded simultaneously in several places in the country, this time “radio devices,” explained the Secretary General of Hezbollah in his speech.
Nasrallah claims Hezbollah received messages from Israel after attacks
Nasrala also said that shortly after the first massive explosions they received Israeli messages calling on them to suspend their support for Gaza. and threatening further attacks if they didn’t.
“Last Tuesday, hours after the attack, we received messages through official and unofficial channels that said: ‘Our goal is for you to stop supporting Gaza and to stop fighting on the northern front, and if you don’t stop, we have more,'” Nasrallah said.
“And indeed there was another attack on Wednesday,” the Shiite cleric added.
Despite all this, Nasrallah reiterated that “the Lebanese front will not stop before the aggression against Gaza stops.” “We do not care about the consequences, the losses, the possibilities, the results. The Resistance in Lebanon will not stop supporting and helping the people of Gaza, the West Bank and all those who suffer injustice in this sacred land,” said the secretary general of Hezbollah.
There is still no official explanation as to how the group’s beepers and radios were infiltrated, but Nasrallah said the movement is investigating “everything” related to these unprecedented events, including the factory, the company and the distribution channel of the affected communication devices.
“We have created several internal, technical and technological investigative committees to study all the hypotheses and theories. We have almost reached a conclusion, but we need time to confirm some details,” Nasrala acknowledged.
The head of the Lebanese Hezbollah also stated in his speech that Israel will not succeed in getting displaced people from the north of the country after eleven months of cross-border bombings return to their homes.
“You will not get the people of the north to come back to the north. No military escalation, no assassination, no killing or all-out war will get the residents back to the border” with Lebanon, he added.
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