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Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, in a television speech in Lebanon on Sunday. Photography: Aziz Taher – Archyde.com. reuters_tickers
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BEIRUT (Archyde.com) – Lebanese Hezbollah group said on Sunday that US actions in the Red Sea would harm the security of entire navigation following the region had now become a conflict zone, adding that Yemen’s Houthi movement would continue attacks despite US and British strikes.
Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of the group, which is a major party in a regional alliance with Iran that includes the Houthis, said that the Houthis’ targeting of ships linked to or heading to Israel will continue.
Nasrallah said, “The most dangerous thing is that what the Americans did in the Red Sea will harm the security of all maritime navigation, even ships that will not go to Palestine, even non-Israeli ships, even ships that have nothing to do with this issue, because the Red Sea has become a battlefield, with missiles, marches, and battleships… “Security was disrupted.”
On Friday, American and British forces launched dozens of air strikes on Houthi forces in response to the group’s attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
The Houthis say they attacked the ships to support Palestinians suffering from the Israeli blockade and war in Gaza. Washington launched another strike on Saturday night.
The Houthis pledged to respond.
Nasrallah said that envoys were sent to Lebanon in the past seeking to stop the Lebanese Front’s actions, by conveying a warning that if the group did not stop the attacks, Israel would launch a war once morest Lebanon, without revealing the identity of the envoys.
Nasrallah added that the goal of the Lebanon front is to stop the war on Gaza.
(Reporting by Laila Bassam, Jana Shuqair, and Maryam Rizk Ahmed Al-Imam – Prepared by Moaz Abdel Aziz for the Arab Bulletin – Editing by Muhammad Ali Faraj)
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