Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stated on Thursday his group would continue supporting Gaza from Lebanon.
"Any hopes of silencing the support fronts, especially the Lebanese front, will fail; We will continue to support Gaza, regardless of the sacrifices involved," Nasrallah said in a televised speech while talking about the latest developments on Lebanon's border with Israel.
Last Monday, Hezbollah said it fired hundreds of rockets into Israel to avenge the killing of its commander, Fouad Shokor, who died in an Israeli airstrike on Dahieh in Beirut's southern suburbs last month. Meanwhile, Israel said it had conducted preemptive airstrikes targeting Hezbollah's rocket launchers in southern Lebanon, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Previously, Hezbollah threatened that it will definitely respond painfully to the killing of Shokor once the appropriate time and place presents itself.
Nasrallah averred in his televised speech that Hezbollah is committed and decisive in its reply to the "brutal aggression" upon Dahieh, but has delayed such response in view of US and Israeli mobilization and to give adequate time for Gaza ceasefire talks.
"We set our parameters for response incisively, being careful that the targets were not civilian or enemy infrastructure sites, but rather military sites that were directly related to the operation of the assassination," he says.
Nasrallah said on Monday that "Galilot" base, which is located 110 km away from the Lebanese border and only 1,500 meters away from the border of Tel Aviv, was one of the Lebanese armed group's two main targets in rocket attacks on Sunday, as it housed Unit 8200 fo intelligence gathering and espionage.
Reacting to Israeli pre-emptive air strikes on supposed Hezbollah rocket-lobbing devices, Nasrallah underscored that "all that they targeted was two launch pads of the missiles, and it does not affect in any way our operation today, our launchers or our fighters."
"We had already evacuated all the valleys containing precision and ballistic missiles, so what the enemy bombed today were empty valleys," he said.
He said that it would consider the response process complete if the result of Sunday's attacks were found satisfactory but that otherwise it "will reserve the right to respond later".
Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel frontier peaked on the 8th of October, 2023, with a barrage of rockets fired by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah at Israel, in solidarity with Hamas' attack on Israel the day before. In response, Israel retaliated with heavy artillery towards southeastern Lebanon.
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