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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel on Friday that the group will “inevitably” respond to the assassination of Hamas’s deputy political leader in Beirut this week, saying it “cannot remain silent” to such an incursion on Lebanese territory.
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“The response is inevitably coming. We cannot remain silent on a violation of this magnitude because it means the whole of Lebanon would be exposed,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech.
Nasrallah appeared to be making the case for a response to the Lebanese public at the risk of escalating the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel. But he gave no indication of how or when his group would act.
There will be a “response and punishment”, he said in his second speech since the killing of Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday. “The decision is now in the hands of the battlefield,” he added.
“Fighters from all areas of the border … will be the ones responding to the dangerous violation in the [southern] suburbs [of Beirut],” he said.
Arouri is the most high-profile Hamas figure to be killed since the October 7 attack in Israel that left more than 1,100 dead.
The Lebanese government holds Israel responsible for Tuesday’s strike in Beirut and has filed a complaint to the UN Security Council over the suspected assassination of Arouri as well as Israel’s use of Lebanese airspace to bomb Syria.
Israel neither confirms nor denies targeted strikes outside its territory. While Israel has not admitted to Arouri’s killing, the head of Mossad vowed this week that the intelligence service would track down every Hamas member behind the October 7 attack.
Nasrallah said it was the first strike by Israel in the Lebanese capital since the 2006 Lebanon war.
“We cannot keep silent about a violation of this seriousness,” he said, “because this means that all…
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Source : france24
