Hezbollah chief says won’t stop shelling north until Israel ends Gaza ‘aggression’

Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, said on Tuesday that his terror group’s cross-border shelling into Israel would only end when Israel’s “aggression” on the Gaza Strip stops, and claimed diplomatic efforts so far to bring a halt to hostilities along the border have so far seemed to only benefit Israel.

The Iran-backed Hezbollah has been trading fire with the Israeli military across Lebanon’s southern border in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas, which launched a devastating assault in Israel on October 7 in which some 1,200 Israelis were massacred and 253 were taken hostage into Gaza.

Israel, in response, launched a massive military campaign in Gaza in order to eradicate Hamas’s capabilities, remove it from power and return the hostages.

In his Tuesday comments, Nasrallah said his group would only stop its attacks in the north if a full ceasefire was reached for Gaza. “On that day, when the shooting stops in Gaza, we will stop the shooting in the south,” he said in his sixth televised address since October 7.

He said many foreign “delegations” had traveled to Beirut with “proposals” to end the hostilities in southern Lebanon, but said they only seemed to “have one goal, which is the security of Israel, the protection of Israel.” READ MORE