Hezbollah tells US to stop Israel’s Gaza attack in order to prevent a regional conflict

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The head of Hezbollah in Lebanon issued a warning to the US on Friday, stating that halting Israel’s assault on Gaza was necessary to avert a regional confrontation and that fighting on the Lebanese front would escalate into a full-scale war.

In his first statement since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on October 7, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah hinted that his Iran-backed force was prepared to take on American warships in the Mediterranean, posing a threat to Israel’s principal ally, the United States.

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“Since the violence against Gaza is coming from the Americans, you can stop it. “The aggression on Gaza must stop immediately, and I am talking to the Americans, whoever wants to prevent a regional war,” stated Nasrallah.

Since October 8, Hezbollah and Israeli forces have engaged in gunfire along the Lebanese-Israeli border, resulting in the deaths of around fifty-five of its militants. However, the fighting has mainly stayed inside the border, and Hezbollah has only deployed a small portion of the armament that Nasrallah has been threatening Israel with for a long time.

According to Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s recent border attacks “won’t be all” that it does. He also stated that further developments on that front will depend on what transpires in Gaza and what Israel does in Lebanon.

Established in 1982 by the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, the group serves as the head of an alliance opposed to both the United States and Israel, backed by Tehran.

Other parties who support Iran have also joined the fight; Houthis from Yemen have launched drones towards Israel, while Tehran-backed Shi’ite militias have opened fire on American forces in Syria and Iraq. Nasrallah praised what they had done.

“You, the Americans, know well that if war takes out in the region, your fleets will prove of no use,” he declared. “The one who is paying the price will be … what you want, your soldiers and your fleets,” warned the politician.

The US does not want to see the crisis spread to Lebanon, the White House stated, and Hezbollah must not take advantage of the Hamas-Israel dispute.

Since the war broke out, the Pentagon has sent two aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean, claiming that this is done as a deterrent to prevent the fighting from getting worse.

Hezbollah is not terrified of the warships, according to Nasrallah.

“With your fleets, which you are threatening us, we have prepared well,” declared Nasrallah, whose group possesses anti-ship missiles.

He referred to the 1983 suicide bombs that destroyed the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut, killing 241 troops, and the suicide attack on the U.S. embassy when he recalled attacks on U.S. interests in Lebanon in the early 1980s. The assaults are attributed by the US to Hezbollah.

He declared, “Those who defeated you in Lebanon… are still alive.”

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After the cross-border attack by Hamas on October 7, which Israel claims resulted in the deaths of over 1,400 people, with roughly 240 of those murdered being taken as prisoners back to the Palestinian enclave, Israel besieged the Hamas-ruled Gaza.

According to Gaza’s health authorities, since Israel began its assault on the 2.3 million-person Palestinian coastal enclave, at least 9,227 people have died, many of them women and children.

The strike by Hamas, according to Nasrallah, has marked the beginning of a “new historic phase”.

He added that the decision was “100%” Palestinian and that both he and Hamas’s other partners had been caught off guard by the strike.

He warned there was a chance the Lebanon front will turn into a “full-fledged war”. Nasrallah stated, “It can happen, therefore the enemy must take every account of it.”

According to Israel, a conflict on its northern border is not something it is interested in. “I remind our opponents not to put us to the test with regards to the north. Any such error will cost you dearly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Friday.

Hezbollah, according to Nasrallah, has been getting stronger every day, compelling Israel to maintain forces close to its northern border rather than in the Gaza Strip & the occupied West Bank to the southwest.

“What is taking place on the border might seem modest, yet if we look at what’s happening on the border honestly, we will find it… very important,” he added.

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