News - Middle East: The secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says Israel deliberately carried out a rocket attack that killed a dozen people in the occupied Golan Heights in order to make up an excuse for the assassination of resistance commanders.

“The Zionist enemy accused Hezbollah of being behind the strike on the town of Majdal Shams without providing any evidence. Our internal investigation determined that we had nothing to do with what happened there,” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech broadcast live from the Lebanese capital Beirut on Thursday.

He was addressing mourners attending the funeral ceremony for top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Beirut on Tuesday.

 

“We have a great deal of evidence that shows missiles launched by Israeli systems have frequently hit the city of Acre and other areas in the occupied territories,” he said.

The Hezbollah chief denounces the strike in Beirut that killed Shukr as “an act of aggression and not simply an assassination.”

“The aggression targeted civilian and not military buildings. Days before the attack, the Israeli enemy alleged that its action would be in reprisal for the Majdal Shams incident. We do not accept such assertion.

    “Several countries have asked Hezbollah not to respond to the Israeli strike on Beirut's suburbs. We are before a major battle and we have entered a new phase that exceeds the issue of support fronts,” Sayyed Nasrallah stated.

He stressed that Shukur’s assassination will increase the resolve, determination and willpower of Hezbollah.

“We are paying the price of our support for Gaza and the Palestinian cause. This is not something new and we accept such a cost.

“I reassure the resistance's supporters that we quickly fill any vacuum whenever one of our leaders gets martyred,” Sayyed Nasrallah said.

The Hezbollah chief also stated that Palestinian resistance factions will not surrender despite the pressure on all fronts.

He underlined that Israel and its Western sponsors must await a harsh and painful response for Shukr's assassination.

    “Our response will certainly come. We are looking for a real and very calculated response. The Axis of Resistance will fight on wisely and courageously,” Sayyed Nasrallah said.

He stated that Israel must await the rage and vengeance of honorable peoples of the Muslim world in the wake of its atrocities and targeted killings.

Sayyed Nasrallah also emphasized that Iran will not remain idle after the assassination of the head of the political bureau of the Hamas resistance movement, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran.

“Iran considers that its sovereignty, image and honor have been encroached on, because Haniyeh was its guest. I tell the Israelis that they can laugh a little now because they will cry a lot later.

“Do they imagine that they can kill Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and still expect Iran to stand idly by?” the Hezbollah chief said.

Source: Press TV 

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