Hezbollah leader speaks for the first time since October 7th…
According to a Fox News report, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech on Friday stressing that Hezbollah terrorists will continue to attack U.S. forces in the Middle East.
“The US must be held accountable and pay the price for the crimes perpetrated by Israel in Gaza, hence resistance movements have attacked and will continue to attack American forces in Iraq and Syria,” the Hezbollah leader vowed.
He continued, “Israel has revealed itself to be a weak state, as fragile as a spider web, and it needs American and Western support. Otherwise, why would the U.S. Navy send an aircraft carrier shortly after the Oct. 7 attack? Why else would Biden visit Israel, alongside numerous American government secretaries, the military top brass and European leaders?”
Watch a clip from the speech below:
JUST IN: Hezbollah THREATENS The United States.. "We are ready for your fleets with which you threaten us..We have made ‘PREPARATIONS’ for the American ships, and we ask America to remember their defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon."
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) November 3, 2023
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel this week pushing Biden’s “humanitarian pause,” which Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu rejected unless Hamas releases the 200 hostages being held in Gaza.
From AP News:
After meeting Blinken, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel “refuses a temporary cease-fire that doesn’t include a return of our hostages,” referring to some 240 people Hamas abducted during its attack. He said Israel was pressing ahead with its military offensive with “all of its power.”
Blinken said there had to be a substantial and immediate increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza, where “we need to do more to protect Palestinian civilians.” Without that, “there are no partners for peace,” he said, adding that it was critical to restore the path toward a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, attacked Israeli military positions in northern Israel with drones, mortar fire and suicide drones on Thursday. The Israeli military said it retaliated with warplanes and helicopter gunships, and spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said civilians were wounded in the Hezbollah attacks.
Israel rules out Gaza cease-fire until hostages released, as US presses for aid, civilian protection (from @AP) (Israel in a fight for survival given the added possible menace of 100,000 Hezbollah fighters. Hamas must be destroyed.) https://t.co/OpMyjK6fC0
— Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) November 3, 2023