Nasrallah concedes Hezbollah suffered ‘unprecedented’ blow, vows to keep fighting until Gaza war ends

Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

People watch the speech of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as they sit in a cafe in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
People watch the speech of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as they sit in a cafe in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In a televised address, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah concedes that the terror group has suffered a “major and unprecedented blow in the history of the Lebanese resistance,” but vows it will recover and keep on fighting.

“The Israeli effort has largely been thwarted,” Nasrallah says. “We will probe what happened,” he adds, adding that an investigation committee has been established.

“We will not fall, and we will come out stronger. We are preparing to face even worse attacks.”

“Shortly, we will celebrate the one-year anniversary of the blessed Al-Aqsa flood operation,” Nasrallah says, referencing the savage October 7 onslaught by Hamas on southern Israel.

“There is no doubt that Hezbollah, since it joined the fight, has registered impressive achievements in the north of Israel,” he adds, claiming that the “criminal” attacks against Hezbollah’s portable devices were conducted by Israel to cover up its incapacity to achieve a military breakthrough against Hezbollah in the north, where it is “embroiled in a war of attrition.”

“We tell [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, [Defense Minister Yoav] Gallant and the Israeli people: We will not stop our attacks as long as the enemy does not halt its war in Gaza.”

“We said it on October 8, and now it’s almost a year later and we still say it,” he notes.

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