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BEIRUT: “Thousands of rockets” will hit Israel if it attacks Lebanon, the chief of the powerful movement Hizbullah said on Sunday, reiterating support for Iran and the Palestinian resistance.
Hassan Nasrallah, in a speech broadcast on Hizbullah’s Al-Manar television and over stadium screens, addressed tens of thousands of supporters who massed in the southern suburbs of Beirut to mark the Shia commemoration of Ashura.
The recent conflict in and around the Gaza Strip, which killed 166 Palestinians and six Israelis, was “a great victory for the resistance,” Nasrallah said. “Israel was shaken by a handful of Fajr 5 missiles. How would it bear the thousands of rockets that would hit Tel Aviv and beyond if it attacked Lebanon,” he challenged.
“That which protects Gaza, after God, is the will of the resistance, its people, its weapons and its rockets,” said the leader of Lebanon’s most powerful military force.
While Gaza activists are constrained by their geography, he stressed that “the battle with us runs through occupied Palestine, from the Lebanese to the Jordanian border to the Red Sea, from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat (Israel’s northernmost and southernmost localities).” “The time when Israel could terrorise us has expired,” he said.
Israel launched a devastating attack on Lebanon in 2006 after Hizbullah fighters captured four soldiers in a cross-border raid. During the ensuing war, Hizbullah fired more than 4,000 rockets into northern Israel.
Hassan Nasrallah, in a speech broadcast on Hizbullah’s Al-Manar television and over stadium screens, addressed tens of thousands of supporters who massed in the southern suburbs of Beirut to mark the Shia commemoration of Ashura.
The recent conflict in and around the Gaza Strip, which killed 166 Palestinians and six Israelis, was “a great victory for the resistance,” Nasrallah said. “Israel was shaken by a handful of Fajr 5 missiles. How would it bear the thousands of rockets that would hit Tel Aviv and beyond if it attacked Lebanon,” he challenged.
“That which protects Gaza, after God, is the will of the resistance, its people, its weapons and its rockets,” said the leader of Lebanon’s most powerful military force.
While Gaza activists are constrained by their geography, he stressed that “the battle with us runs through occupied Palestine, from the Lebanese to the Jordanian border to the Red Sea, from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat (Israel’s northernmost and southernmost localities).” “The time when Israel could terrorise us has expired,” he said.
Israel launched a devastating attack on Lebanon in 2006 after Hizbullah fighters captured four soldiers in a cross-border raid. During the ensuing war, Hizbullah fired more than 4,000 rockets into northern Israel.
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