2024-01-03 03:38:15
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists circulated on social media video clips of a speech delivered by the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, threatening a “strong response” if an assassination occurred on Lebanese soil.
Nasrallah’s circulated speech he delivered last August, in which he said: “Any assassination on Lebanese soil that targets a Lebanese, Palestinian, Iranian, Syrian, or any affiliated group he belongs to will certainly have a strong reaction and it cannot be tolerated and cannot be tolerated. We will not allow an arena to be opened.” Lebanon is once again subject to assassinations…
The circulation of Nasrallah’s statements comes after the Lebanese News Agency announced that the leader of the Hamas movement, Saleh Al-Arouri, was killed in a missile attack carried out by an “Israeli drone” on the movement’s office in Beirut, on Tuesday evening, according to the agency.
Al-Aqsa Channel, affiliated with Hamas, said on its Telegram account: “The deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Sheikh Mujahid Commander Saleh Al-Arouri, was martyred in a treacherous Zionist raid in Beirut.”
For his part, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari avoided a journalist’s question about his comment on the killing of prominent Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in an alleged Israeli raid in southern Beirut on Tuesday. Hagari said, in response to a question during his daily press conference: “We We are focusing on the fight against Hamas.” He added: “The Israeli army is in very high readiness in all fields, defense and attack… We are fully prepared for any scenario.” He continued: “The most important thing we must say tonight is that we are focusing on fighting Hamas and there is terrorist activity.” to Hamas in various arenas,” in response to a question posed by a reporter about what Israel knows about the nature of “the weapons that Hamas possesses in Lebanon.”
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