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Let the enemy prepare himself to cry and wail
He has been vocal in his support for escalating the conflict with Israel, stating after a Hezbollah commander's death ... as quoted by Times of Isreal The great Mujahid, the standard-bearer of Resistance in the region, a virtuous scholar of religion & a wise political leader - Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (may God be pleased with him) - achieved martyrdom in last night's tragic events in Lebanon & has ascended to the the heavens."
Iran's Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei mourned the Hezbollah leader's death stating We have prepared for the fleets with which you threaten us."
As regional tensions escalated after the eruption of the Gaza war, Nasrallah issued a thinly veiled warning to US warships in the Mediterranean, telling them We are here paying the price for our front of support for Gaza, and for the Palestinian people, and our adoption of the Palestinian cause,
Nasrallah said in the August 1 speech We are facing a great battle,
Nasrallah said in an August 1 speech at the funeral of Hezbollah's top military commander, Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli strike on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut Nasrallah was one of the greatest enemies of the State of Israel of all time... his elimination makes the world a safer place,
Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised statement on Saturday Our history, our guns and our rockets are with you,
At a recent event in Dahiyeh, Hezbollah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs, he declared ... in a show of solidarity with Palestinian fighters His eminence, the righteous servant, has passed away to be with his Lord who is pleased with him as a great martyr."
The Israel Defense Forces confirm that Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization and one of its founders, was eliminated yesterday,
the Israeli government said in a statement posted online Hezbollah will not collapse if Nasrallah is killed or incapacitated, but this will be a major blow to the group’s morale. It would also underline Israel’s security and military superiority and access,
said Lina Khatib, an associate fellow at the Chatham House policy institute in London They are breaking Hezbollah's power. There's no need to kill every member of Hezbollah but if you destroy its combat structure and force them to surrender. It loses credibility,
Israel will want to translate this pressure into a new status quo in which its north is secure, but this will not happen quickly even if Nasrallah is eliminated,
He became a legendary figure, kind of, for the Lebanese Shia,
Israel has declared war. It is a full-scale war, and Israel is using this opportunity to eliminate the leadership structure and destroy Hezbollah's infrastructure,
said Fawaz Gerges, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics He has been the glue that has held together an expanding organisation,
The whole landscape would change big time,
said Mohanad Hage Ali, deputy research director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut You kill one, they get a new one,
said a European diplomat of the group's approach The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out a precise strike on the Central headquarters of the Hezbollah terror organisation…taking the necessary action to protect our people so that Israeli families can live in their homes, safely and securely,
IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, declared in a televised statement shortly after the military action in the Dahiyeh suburb in Lebanon’s Capital The point of security measures is that movement be kept secret, but that doesn't stop me from moving around and seeing what is happening,
Nasrallah told Al-Akhbar, a Lebanese newspaper sympathetic to Hezbollah