Nasrallah vows Israel will not be able to return residents to their homes in the north

In a televised address, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vows that the terror group will prevent Israel from realizing the recently-added war objective to return Israeli citizens displaced from the border area in the north to their homes.

“The goal of the resistance is to prevent the enemy from realizing its goals. Its latest objective is to return the settlers to their homes in the north of occupied Palestine,” he says.

“Let me tell the Israeli government, the Israeli army and the Israeli people: You will not manage. I tell Prime Minister Netanyahu: You can do what you want, you will not manage. The only solution is to halt the aggression against the people of Gaza. No military escalation, no killings, no total war will return your settlers to the border area. You know it,” he says.

Nasrallah further derides the idea recently put forward by IDF Northern Command head Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin to create a buffer zone in southern Lebanon earlier this week, calling Gordin an “imbecile.”

Nasrallah says he hopes Israeli forces will enter southern Lebanon, because “what they see as a threat we see as an opportunity.”

He says Hezbollah is using all means to seek out Israeli soldiers and tanks, and this task will be easier “if they come out toward us. Welcome.”

The Shiite terror leader further vows retaliation for the unprecedented attack against communications devices held by Hezbollah members. “There will be a just punishment. I will not say when, where or how. You will know when the time comes.”

As usual, Nasrallah was speaking from an unknown location.