In a public address, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah blames Israel for the coordinated pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday, saying the attack “violated all red lines.”
In his first comments since the coordinated attacks that were blamed on Israel, Nasrallah called the attacks “an unprecedented massacre.”
“A declaration of war? You can call it anything,” he says.
“On Tuesday, Israel intended to kill 4,000 people in one minute by detonating the pagers. Many of them were civilians,” the terror leader claims, even though the devices appear to have been distributed only to Hezbollah operatives. “The following day, 1,000 more in one minute. In two minutes, Israel intended to kill 5,000.”
“We have suffered a heavy blow. This is war, this is conflict. We know the enemy, not only Israel but also the US and NATO, has technological superiority,” he says.
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