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.
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“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.
The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip was sparked by an attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil on October 7 that killed around 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on the results.
In retaliation, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza since 2007, and is relentlessly shelling the narrow strip of land where at least 23,968 people, mostly women, teenagers and children, have died, according to Hamas's latest Health Ministry report of Hamas.
Since October 8, there have been daily cross-border exchanges of fire between the Lebanese movement, which is supposedly intervening in support of its ally Hamas, and the Israeli army.
The Houthis, Yemeni rebels supported by Iran, are intensifying attacks on ships believed to be linked to Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.
Tehran-backed Iraqi fighters also claim attacks on American troop bases in Syria and Iraq.
“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.
AFP
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.