News - Middle East: Millions across the world tuned in on Friday to hear Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah deliver a much-awaited speech after nearly a month of strategic silence amid the Operation “Al Aqsa Storm.”

The Hezbollah leader, in his characteristic style, touched on the events unfolding in the besieged Gaza Strip and vowed that all options are on the table if the Israeli regime and its backers in Washington insist on continuing their brazen aggression against the territory’s 2.2 million population.
The much-anticipated speech was broadcast live worldwide and was attended by thousands of people in the Lebanese capital Beirut, where supporters of the Palestinian cause had gathered much earlier.
Nasrallah’s speech, measured and calculated as always, has already caused anxiety in Western capitals as the Hezbollah resistance movement delivered devastating blows to Israeli forces on the northern border of occupied Palestine.
The charismatic Hezbollah leader began his speech with a reflection on the horrific loss of life due to the Israeli occupation’s genocidal campaign in Gaza that started on October 7 and has so far killed over 9,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children.
Expressing condolences to the bereaved families, Nasrallah quoted the holy Quran, saying “Those martyred in the cause of Allah are not dead—in fact, they are alive and happy with their Lord.”
After paying tribute to the martyred fighters of resistance, he encapsulated the events of the ‘Operation Al Aqsa Storm’ (also known as the Al-Aqsa Flood) thus far. 
The Hezbollah leader affirmed that the ongoing operation against the occupying regime is “100% Palestinian” and was planned in total secrecy with no other regional resistance group aware of it.
Since the onset of the operation on October 7, Zionist officials have been accusing Iran and Hezbollah, in particular, of collaborating with the Palestinian resistance group Hamas in planning the operation.
This blame game has been designed to dilute the fact that the operation exposed the failure of Israeli intelligence and debunked the myth of the regime’s military invincibility.
“The international community keeps bringing up Iran and its military plans, but the October 7 attack was a 100% Palestinian operation, planned and executed by Palestinians for the Palestinian cause, it has no relation at all to any international or regional issues,” Nasrallah stated.
The fact of the matter, as succinctly laid out by the Hezbollah chief in his Friday speech, is that Hamas and the Palestinian resistance alone have humiliated the Israeli regime. 
“Operation Al-Aqsa Flood further exposed the weakness and frailty of the Israeli entity”, Nasrallah said, invoking his iconic description of the Israeli regime as “weaker than a spider’s web.”
The Hezbollah leader called out the main architect of Palestine’s suffering: the United States.