From Le Figaro with AFP
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Lebanese Hezbollah leader Nasrallah gives a televised address on January 14, 2024. AZIZ TAHER / Portal
Nasrallah spoke this Sunday, January 14, 2024, as tensions increased on the border between Israel and Lebanon.
Nasrallah has spoken. The leader of the pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah said on Sunday that Israel had “failed” to achieve its goals in Gaza, forcing it to negotiate as its war against the Palestinian Hamas enters its 100th day.
“What has the enemy achieved in a hundred days other than killing?” Hassan Nasrallah began in a televised address commemorating the death of a senior military official in the powerful movement, Wissam Tawil, who was killed by Israel in southern Lebanon on Monday. “He achieved no real or semblance of victory. It has failed to achieve its stated, semi-stated and implicit objectives,” he added.
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Israel must “negotiate”
“If we continue on this path, whether in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen or Iraq, the enemy government will have no choice but to accept the conditions of resistance in Gaza and therefore an end to aggression against Gaza “to negotiate,” said Hassan Nasrallah.
According to an AFP count, 190 people have been killed in Lebanon in more than three months of border violence, including at least 141 Hezbollah fighters and more than 20 civilians. Hezbollah announces daily fire on Israeli military targets, while the Israeli army responds with air strikes and artillery fire on the party's “infrastructure” and fighters near the border.
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