Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says Gaza has defeated Israel in its 18-day conflict with the Jewish state, saying it has failed to stop rocket-fire and stamp out Hamas in the Palestinian enclave.
“Ehud Barak said that in any possible war between Israel and Gaza, it would be quick and decisive and the victory would be clear,” Nasrallah says in a speech, referring to Israel’s former prime minister and defense minister, “but Gaza todays says to them — you are cowards that murder children, and if you face our heroes face to face, you and your army will fall.”
Nasrallah’s speech is reported to be a rare public appearance before a crowd of supporters, though TV footage which only shows the Hezbollah leader alone in extreme close-up makes the claim dubious.
The terror group’s leader claims that, as in the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Israel used a kidnapping as a pretext to launch a war, “thinking it had a golden opportunity to open a war on Gaza.”
Nasrallah says not just Hamas but all of Gaza is being targeted by Israel. “The target is every rocket and every tunnel in Gaza and every drop of blood of the Gazans.”
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