Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gives condolences to Hamas after the killing of its deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri.
The pinnacle of Lebanon’s highly effective armed group Hezbollah says the killing of the deputy chief of allied Palestinian faction Hamas in Beirut was “a major, dangerous crime about which we cannot be silent”.
In a televised speech on Wednesday, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel for the assault and supplied his condolences to Hamas for what he known as a “flagrant Israeli aggression” that killed Saleh al-Arouri.
Tuesday’s strike hit the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold.
It was the primary strike to hit Beirut after nearly three months of close to every day hearth between the Israeli navy and Hezbollah throughout the Israel-Lebanon border.
Hezbollah launched rockets throughout the border starting on October 8 in help of Hamas, which had carried out a lethal assault into southern Israel the day gone by that Israel responded to with a devastating bombing marketing campaign on the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah is a part of the “axis of resistance”, a unfastened alliance of armed teams with ties to Iran. They embody Hamas in Palestine and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Nasrallah asserted Hezbollah’s “quick” motion on October 8 and the cross-border shelling since then had prevented a broader bombing marketing campaign by Israel of Lebanon.
He mentioned there could be “no ceilings” and “no rules” to preventing by Hezbollah if Israel launches a struggle on Lebanon.
Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr mentioned Nasrallah’s deal with was a “delicate balancing act”.
“He talked concerning the entrance in southern Lebanon, the place Hezbollah is engaged in a low-intensity battle with the Israeli military alongside the border. He mentioned that [fighting] will proceed.
“He said that if Israel decides to launch a full-scale offensive, then Hezbollah would fight back with its full military capabilities.”
“But Nasrallah also spoke about strategic, national considerations that each of the so-called resistance groups in this ‘axis of resistance’ across the region have to take into account. And in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah knows that Israel can destroy this country,” she mentioned.
“In many ways, his hands are tied. But at the same time, he reiterated that Hezbollah is not afraid of war.”