Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Hezbollah leader: Israel in dilemma between defeat or ‘abyss’ in Gaza war

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address Monday that Israel was facing a “historical dilemma” in its war in Gaza between defeat and an “abyss.”

“If it halts the war, it will be a major defeat; and it will move into an abyss if it continues the military battle,” Nasrallah claimed, according to the Lebanon-based terror group’s Al-Manar TV.

He added that Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel in which terrorists murdered some 1,200 people and kidnapped 252 was “a chance to revitalize the Palestinian cause.”

The “steadfastness of women, children and resistance fighters in Gaza” has helped to reverse processes of normalization between Israel and Arab countries, he said.

“Nowadays, Palestine and the Palestinian rights are being highlighted all over the world,” Nasrallah was quoted as saying. READ MORE