The leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah insisted yesterday that the continuation of violence on the border between Lebanon and Israel, in the Red Sea and in Iraq, depends on the cessation of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip
“The security of the Red Sea, the calm of the front with Lebanon and the situation in Iraq depend on stopping the aggression [israelita] once morest Gaza”, declared Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech, on the day that 100 days have passed since the start of the conflict, triggered on October 7 by the attack by the Islamist movement Hamas on Israel. The cleric was referring to the conflict between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the United States in the Red Sea, the intense exchange of border fire between Hezbollah and Israel and the attacks by pro-Iranian Iraqi militias once morest US positions in the Iraq and Syria.
“The Lebanese front was created to support Gaza and stop the aggression once morest it, and when the aggression stops, then it will be another discussion. First of all, stop the aggression once morest Gaza and then it will be a different discussion”, said the leader of the Lebanese movement, an ally of Iran. Hezbollah and the Israeli forces- “This forces us to incur much higher security expenses than than expected”, he maintained, adding that the objective is to give Israel the necessary resources to continue fighting the conflict until the “elimination of Hamas” and the “return of the hostages” who are still in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Prime Minister also indicated that this reinforcement aims to “reestablish security in the north and south” of Israel, for which the dozens of millets have been involved in an intense exchange of fire since October 8, one day following the start of the war in Gaza, which has intensified since the beginning of this month following the death, on the outskirts of Beirut, of the ‘number two’ in the political office of the Islamic group Hamas, Saleh al Arouri, shot down by the Hebrew army.
“We have been prepared for war for 99 days and we are not afraid of it,” warned Nasrallah, who stated that his group launched more than 60 rockets from a new firing range near the border with Israel. Both Hezbollah, Houthi rebels and pro-Iran militias in Iraq are part of the informal anti-Israel and anti-American Axis of Resistance alliance, led by Iran, and which has carried out actions once morest Israel in support of to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
