In a eulogy for slain Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr, the terror group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah says it is seeking a “carefully considered response,” and that Israelis “don’t know where it will come from.”
He minimizes the impact of Shukr’s assassination on the functioning of the organization.
“When one of our commanders becomes a martyr, he is swiftly replaced. We have an excellent new generation of commanders,” he says.
He further denies that military pressure on Hamas, Hezbollah or other Iran-backed groups will cause them to surrender.
“The aspiration of [Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu is that Hamas will tell him: ‘Come, here are the hostages and the weapons.’ This will not happen. We will not surrender, neither in Gaza, nor in Lebanon, nor in Yemen.”
He reiterates that the only way to end the war on the Lebanon front is for Israel to stop its “aggression” in Gaza, and says that he ordered Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon to reduce the fighting yesterday and today, and that they will resume with a higher intensity tomorrow.
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