Nasrallah says response to Shukur killing coming 'whatever the consequences'

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Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday stressed that his group will respond to Israel’s killing of its military chief Fouad Shukur “whatever the consequences may be.”

Iran "finds itself obliged to respond, and the enemy is waiting in a great state of dread," Nasrallah said in a televised address commemorating Shukur, adding that Hezbollah will respond "alone or in the context of a unified response from all the axis" of Iran-backed groups in the region, "whatever the consequences."

“The Israeli wait for one week now for the response is part of the response and the punishment, because the battle is psychological, moral and military,” Nasrallah added.

“Regardless of any consequences, the resistance cannot let the assassination go unpunished,” he stressed, while saying that “no one in Lebanon or outside Lebanon should ask us to treat the Dahieh aggression as being normal.”

“Our response is coming and it will be strong and effective,” Nasrallah added, noting that “Israel is the side that chose escalation with Iran and Lebanon.”

Nasrallah also warned that “the Israeli factories in northern Israel, which are worth over $130 billion, can be destroyed in half an hour.”

“The battle's objective now is not to eradicate Israel but rather to prevent it from winning,” Nasrallah said, describing the assassinations of Haniyeh and Shukur as Israeli “achievements” but not a “victory” in the war.

“The secret behind our strength lies in continuity, because targeting our leaders will not harm our resolve and determination to continue the way,” he said.

Timeline
  • 06 August 2024, 18:57

    Nasrallah: Israel is the side that chose escalation with Iran and Lebanon.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:54

    Nasrallah: Our response is coming and it will be strong and effective.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:52

    Nasrallah: No one in Lebanon or outside Lebanon should ask us to treat the Dahieh aggression as being normal.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:51

    Nasrallah: In Lebanon, we are very keen on our people and on the infrastructure.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:49

    Nasrallah: Regardless of any consequences, the resistance cannot let the assassination go unpunished.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:49

    Nasrallah: God willing, our response will come, whether separately or together with the axis.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:48

    Nasrallah: The enemy's calculations as to going to an all-out war are complicated and when it wants to go to war it will not need an excuse.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:44

    Nasrallah: The Israeli factories in northern Israel, which are worth over $130 billion, can be destroyed in half an hour.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:37

    Nasrallah: The Israeli wait for the response is part of the response and the punishment, because the battle is psychological, moral and military.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:34

    Nasrallah: Iran is committed to responding to Haniyeh's assassination and Hezbollah is committed to responding to Sukhur's assassination.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:32

    Nasrallah: The Americans thought that Iran would respond at dawn Monday but this turned out to be untrue.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:32

    Nasrallah: Iran finds itself obliged to respond after the assassination of the martyr Haniyeh.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:27

    Nasrallah: Some in Lebanon should be afraid if Israel wins, not if the resistance wins.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:27

    Nasrallah: I call on the Lebanese people to understand the magnitude of the current challenges, seeing as the fate of the region is being decided.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:24

    Nasrallah: Israel is still in a difficult situation, even after the assassination of the martyrs Shukur and Haniyeh.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:22

    Nasrallah: The battle's objective now is not to eradicate Israel but rather to prevent it from winning.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:21

    Nasrallah: The Israelis themselves said that Shukur's killing does not change the course of the war.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:20

    Nasrallah: Shukur's killing is an Israeli achievement but it is not a victory.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:15

    Nasrallah: Israel is no longer strong as before and the proof is that today it is scared of the response of the Axis of Resistance and is seeking U.S. and Western help.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:05

    Nasrallah: If Netanyahu and his government win the war, Israel will reign over the region.

  • 06 August 2024, 18:03

    Nasrallah: It is clear that Netanyahu does not want to stop the war and wants a Western-American commitment to return to war in the next stage, because it has a project in Gaza.

  • 06 August 2024, 17:58

    Nasrallah: We acknowledge the magnitude of the loss and our loss with (the killing) of Sayyed Mohsen (Fouad Shukur) was very big, but this does not affect us at all and the proof is the continuation of the operations.

  • 06 August 2024, 17:44

    Nasrallah: The secret behind our strength lies in continuity, because targeting our leaders will not harm our resolve and determination to continue the way.

  • 06 August 2024, 17:42

    Nasrallah: The enemy might break the sound barrier during my speech in order to terrorize the attendees. This indicates that it is now acting in a very childish way.

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Comments 5
Missing HellAndWaite 06 August 2024, 19:02

"Some in Lebanon should be afraid if Israel wins, not if the resistance wins." If, as surely is the case, all Shia are "some", who all are "the rest" in Lebanon?

Nasrallah is telling Lebanese that, if you are not "some", you should be afraid if the resistance wins and need not be afraid if it loses.

Nasrallah seems personally afraid for his own life being taken by assassination.

Thumb i.report 07 August 2024, 16:22

No Muslim believer fears death, not even the genocided little Palestinian kids. You’re spewing nonsense.

Thumb SupportBeirut 06 August 2024, 22:18

The fingers of the Mossad have penetrate so deep inside the Shia community and Hezbollah's own security cordons they can perform a comprehensive prostate exam on any of them. Nasrallah is trying to rally the Shia with the lame "us and them" routine. The level of mistrust, not of "the rest" but of their own the "some", is at an all high, not felt since Hezbollah's assassinations of their opponents in Amal, LCP etc. It's not "the rest" that Nasrallah is afraid of, we're not the blabbermouths, and he knows this, it's his own.

Missing arturo 06 August 2024, 22:56

The Lebanese government should not have approved this. Hezbollah is only one party, and while they control the military, other parties should have acted to block Hezbollah from this attack.

Thumb i.report 07 August 2024, 16:20

La peur a changé de camp! Yes, the genocidal Zionist entity has infiltrated Lebanon, Hezbollah and even Iran with dirty US money and is able to target military and political leaders, but it has réalisée yet that its fatally wounded, its days are numbered, the Zionist entity will disappear, most will return to their native Europe and Brooklyn and the others will have to live under Palestinian rule. It’s only a matter of time and it’ll occur very soon within a few years.