«I will not talk about times, mode or placebut the punishment For Israel will arrive”. The day after the attacks in Lebanon against portable devices of members of Hezbollahthe leader of the ‘party of god‘ Hassan Nasrallah vows revenge. The leader of Hezbollah admits that the organization has suffered a “very hard” blow, speaks of unprecedented attacks in Lebanon and defines the operations of the last few days as “a terrorist act» and a «declaration of war» by Israel against the people Lebanese and the sovereignty of the country. The Pager attacks were intended to «kill 4,000 people at once», he adds, «this was the intention of the enemyand this is the extent of the crime. What can we call this kind of criminal action? Is it a big operation? Is it a genocide? It’s a massacre??
The Pager explosions and other devices have occurred in pharmacies, hospitals, markets, shops, houses, cars and in the roads where many were found civiliansaccording to the leader of Hezbollahkilling women And children and making thousands of injuredwith wounds of various kinds. And in any case, it is the threat of Nasrallahthe operation in Lebanon will not prevent Hezbollah to continue to throw rockets And drones against Israel in support of the struggle of Hamas against the army Israeli to Gaza. «You will not be able to bring back the people of the north at home. None military escalationnone killingno murder and none total war can bring residents back to confine“, is the response of the leader of the pro-Iranian group to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who yesterday had promised exactly the opposite.
Just in the minutes when Nasrallah he was giving his speech, the Israeli jets they flew over at low altitude Beirutan unmistakable sign of challenge. And proof that Israel does not back down and reiterates its announced desire to open a new phase of the war on north front. The head of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Herzi Halevihas approved the battle plans for the northern front, the one bordering the Lebanonreports the same Israeli army. And the same ones IDF they announced that a wave of air strikes against the objectives of Hezbollah In the South Lebanon to weaken the pro-Iranian organization that continues to launch its rockets on the Galilee. Lebanese media reported that massive Israeli air strikes near Deir Qanoun al-Nahrin the district of Shot.
There diplomacy meanwhile moves to avoid the escalation: in the evening at Paris the ministers of the Foreign of the so-called Quintet (Italy, France, USA, Germany And Great Britain) will take stock of the situation situation in the Middle East to understand what to do, at a level diplomaticto avoid an escalation”, said the head of the Farnesina, Antonio Tajani. Washington did not explicitly condemn the attacks to the pager and to walkie-talkie of the last few days, never claimed but widely attributed to Israel which have caused in all 37 victims and beyond 600 injuredbut called on all parties not to aggravate the already very tense situation, as has been done Paris.