In remarks in a televised speech on Tuesday to commemorate top-ranking Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr, who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the suburbs of southern Beirut last week, Seyed Hassan Nasrallah also said that the West’s delivery of arms to defend Israel against the resistance's retaliatory attacks demonstrates Tel Aviv’s incapability to defend itself.
"Israel is not as strong as it was before this war, and its prestige and military capability are no longer as they were," he said, according to Press TV.
Less than a day after assassinating Shukr in Beirut, Israel assassinated Hamas’s Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran. The back-to-back targeted killings pushed the region to the brink, with Iran and Hezbollah vowing a harsh punishment for the Israeli regime.
The Hezbollah chief noted that Israel is highly anxious about Iran and Hezbollah’s imminent attacks in response to the assassinations, adding that this is the reason why it is asking the United States and Western countries to defend it.
He said targeting Hezbollah leaders will not weaken the movement’s resolve to continue its path, underlining that the recent assassinations will not alter the fundamental nature of the resistance front either.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Nasrallah said the recent developments show the true goal of Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet is uprooting Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
He said Netanyahu does not want a ceasefire in Gaza and seeks to “establish total security control” over the blockaded territory.
He also warned that the Israeli regime seeks to annex the occupied West Bank and expel Palestinians from there, calling on regional countries to wake up to the danger of Zionism.