2023-11-03 09:50:30
The leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, will give a speech this Friday, the first since the beginning of the intense escalation between his formation and Israel three weeks ago, and also since the outbreak of the Gaza war with the Palestinian militia Hamas .
The intervention will take place on Friday at 3:00 p.m. local time (1:00 p.m. GMT) during a ceremony to “honor the martyrs who sacrificed their lives on the road to Jerusalem,” Hezbollah announced in a statement on Sunday.
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Since the war waged against Israel in 2006, the cleric has lived in an unknown location and has not appeared in public for years, which is why his speeches are usually broadcast on related televisions and on giant screens during events organized by the Shiite formation.
Friday’s will be his first public words since the start of the Gaza war on October 7 and since a day later Hezbollah’s cross attacks with Israeli forces began across the de facto border between both countries.
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The clashes on the divide have intensified over time until they have become an almost continuous exchange of missiles and bombardments.
This Thursday, Hezbollah claimed to have simultaneously attacked 19 Israeli military positions with guided missiles and rockets, in addition to claiming an attack against an Israeli headquarters, a drone and “an espionage system.”
In a series of statements, Hezbollah claimed a simultaneous attack on 19 Israeli military points with “guided missiles and rockets, artillery shells and direct weapons,” on the eve of a speech by its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Israeli firefighters sift through the rubble of burned vehicles following a rocket attack from southern Lebanon on the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on November 2, 2023. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP).
However, the Shiite group’s attacks began after midnight, when they shot down an Israeli drone flying over the airspace of the border villages of Al Malikiyah and Hunin with a surface-to-air missile, according to the same source.
Later, at noon, fighters from the Lebanese organization detected an “espionage system”, which they did not specify, in the southern site of Al Abad, and which they shot down “with appropriate weapons.”
Hezbollah’s next target was the Israeli battalion headquarters in Zabdin, in the occupied Cheba Farms, territories controlled by the Jewish State that Lebanon claims as its own, where they launched “two attack marches” with a “large amount of explosives.” ”.
In the statements, Hezbollah also announced and lamented the death of one of its militiamen, Ali Ramez Hamza “Haider Ali”, whom it defined as “a martyr on the road to Jerusalem”, and who brings the number of Hezbollah members to 50. dead since last October 8, with the start of the crossfire with Israel.
Nasrallah’s silence fueled fears that Hezbollah would decide to get directly involved in the Gaza war and that Lebanon would become a second front in it, something that the Lebanese Government is trying to avoid at all costs with intense contacts at the level. domestic and international.
The armed movement has surrounded its plans with uncertainty, although many experts believe that one of its main red lines was the start of a major ground offensive on the Gaza Strip that poses an imminent danger to the survival of Hamas.
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