Alwaght- Hezbollah will make Israeli regime “pay with blood” for killing Lebanese civilians on Wednesday.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks in a televised speech broadcast live from the Lebanese capital city of Beirut on Friday on the occasion of Hezbollah’s Martyred Leaders Day, which annually falls on February 16.
He was referring to the civilians who were killed in an Israeli attack on Nabatiyeh neighborhood in Beirut’s south.
In a separate attack by Israeli forces, a woman and her two children were also killed in the village of as-Sawana in southern Lebanon.
Nasrallah condemned the Israeli strikes on Nabatiyeh and as-Sawana as “deliberate massacres,” and said Tel Aviv must know that it “went too far” by its targeting of civilians.
“The enemy will pay the price for the killing of our women and children with blood. The price of this blood will be blood, not sites, spy devices, and vehicles, and I will leave the matter to the battlefield,” Press TV cited Hezbollah chief as saying.
“The enemy is killing our leaders, fighters and families and it is destroying our homes, but this will not push us to retreat or give up on our responsibilities.”
Stressing that the Israeli regime’s goal from killing civilians is to pressure the resistance to stop, Nasrallah said, “We are in the heart of a real battle on a front that extends more than 100 kilometers, and the martyrdom of our fighters is part of the battle.”
The Hezbollah leader said the recent targeting of Kiryat Shmona settlement in the north of the occupied territories with dozens of Katyusha rockets was an “initial response” to Wednesday’s bloodshed, adding that the Lebanese resistance has enormous and accurate missile capabilities that can extend from Kiryat Shmona in the north to Eilat in the south.
In a Wednesday speech Nasrallah warned about a full-scale war, saying that if a war is waged on Lebanon, not only the displaced Israelis will not return to their homes on the border with Lebanon, but also Israeli government should open” all of its shelters, schools, hospitals, and others for over two million settlers.”
