Hezbollah chief to Israel: 'You have lost the war'
By newseditors // 2024-03-20
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Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, said in a speech on 13 March that Israel has lost the war in Gaza, even if it proceeds with plans to launch a deadly assault on the southernmost city of Rafah, which Tel Aviv claims is the key to its victory. (Article republished from TheCradle.co) Nasrallah praised the “patience” of the Palestinian people in Gaza, calling it “miraculous.” He also praised the outcome of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and its “strategic achievements.” “Today, on the sixth month, Netanyahu says, ‘If we do not go to Rafah, we have lost.’ And I say to him, even if you go to Rafah, you have lost this war. After six months of fighting, you have not been able to provide even an image of victory,” the resistance leader said. He added that despite all the massacres and difficult conditions, the people of Gaza still support the resistance. “What is the first and biggest goal Israel announced at the start of this war? The defeat of Hamas. Today, we are in the sixth month. Who is it negotiating with? Hamas,” Nasrallah went on to say. Nasrallah added that Hamas is negotiating “from a position of victory,” praising it for imposing and standing by its terms. He also condemned western “deception” around the ongoing truce efforts, which he said Washington has lied about it by saying that “the ball is in Hamas’ court.” Recent truce efforts have stalled due to Israel’s refusal of the terms of the Palestinian resistance, which demands an immediate end to the war, a permanent ceasefire, and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip. Concerning Lebanon, Nasrallah confirmed that the “Lebanese front will remain in a position of support alongside the resistance, the people of Gaza, and the leadership of Hamas, whatever the time.” Since 8 October, Hezbollah has been launching daily operations against Israeli sites in support of the resistance in Gaza. Israel has continued to escalate attacks on civilians in southern and eastern Lebanon, prompting Hezbollah to widen its target range. In response to recent attacks on eastern Lebanon’s Beqaa region and continuous indiscriminate bombardment of the south, Hezbollah has struck several strategic Israeli sites in the occupied Golan Heights and Galilee. Western-led efforts to de-escalate the southern front have failed, as Hezbollah continues to stand by its position that it will not stop fighting until the war in Gaza is brought to an end. Israel has been threatening to widen the war against Lebanon as a result. Nasrallah responded to criticism, claiming that the Lebanese resistance’s operations have not helped Gaza or affected Israel. “100,000 Zionist soldiers are deployed near the Lebanon border to prevent the resistance from invading occupied Palestine,” he said, adding that Israel is suffering heavy losses. “Israel does not have enough soldiers to wage a war on Lebanon,” he said, repeating the recent comments made by former Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid. Nasrallah also referred to the crisis of ultra-orthodox military service, which is a sign of impending “collapse” for Israel. “Further patience will lead the Axis of Resistance to achieve a major victory,” he said, highlighting “Zionist military, economic, and political exhaustion.” Around 200,000 Israelis have been forced to flee their settlements in the north of Israel, creating what Hebrew media has referred to as a “buffer zone” imposed by Hezbollah upon the occupied Galilee. “Whoever wants to evaluate what the resistance is doing on our front must see that the resistance deters the enemy from waging a war on Lebanon.” Read more at: TheCradle.co
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