Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addressed the public on Friday for the first time since the war in Gaza began on October 7. He emphasized that the Al-Aqsa flooding operation was planned to be 100% Palestinian. He praised the terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip: The decision to carry out this operation was “wise, courageous and at the right time,” Nasrallah said in a speech on Friday.
Already in the first hours of the attack it was clear that the “enemy was distracted, lost and in awe,” Nasrallah said. The attack heralded a “new historical phase of the conflict”. The operation was kept secret from the “Axis of Resistance”. “The fact that no one knows about this proves that this battle is entirely Palestinian in nature,” Nasrallah said. Previously there were suspicions that Hamas was supported from abroad in its major attack on Israel.
Hezbollah’s secretary general addressed his supporters via video message. There were meetings all over Lebanon to listen to the speech together. In the southern suburbs of Beirut alone, thousands of supporters of the Shiite organization gathered waving Hezbollah and Palestinian flags or photographs of the Secretary General. They shouted “God bless Nasrallah”. Hundreds of people also attended the speech in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Numerous government supporters gathered Friday in central locations across the metropolis to hear the secretary general’s words.
It is Nasrallah’s first public speech since October 7, when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel. 1,400 people were killed in the most brutal way. The Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah is considered Tehran’s most important non-state ally and is part of the so-called “Axis of Resistance”, a front of militias in the fight against Iran’s archenemy, Israel.