Hezbollah’s Executive Council chief vows to the Israelis that the Resistance’s coming operations will “increase both in type and quantity.”
Thousands of people gathered in the southern suburb of Beirut on Wednesday to commemorate Hezbollah leader Taleb Sami Abdallah (Abu Taleb), who was martyred on the path to al-Quds in a targeted Israeli airstrike carried out by the Israeli occupation late Tuesday on Jwaya in southern Lebanon.
In a speech during the procession, the Executive Council chief of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, emphasized that the occupation entity has not learned from past experiences of the battle against Hezbollah.
“Israel persists in its folly … believing that assassinating [Resistance] leaders would weaken [it],” he declared, pointing out that experience has shown that the Resistance only grows stronger and becomes more steadfast following the martyrdom of its leaders.
Sayyed Safieddine stressed that “Israel must understand” that Hezbollah’s inevitable response will be to increase operations in support of Gaza, “both in type and quantity.”
In an explicit threat against the occupation, he said, “If [Israelis] are now whimpering and groaning from what has befallen them in northern occupied Palestine, then they should prepare themselves for weeping and wailing,” referring to the impact of Hezbollah’s operations.
Hezbollah’s top official recalled the honorable history and achievements of martyr Abu Taleb.
He is “one of the heroes of the July 2006 war, and it is natural for him to always be a target” for the occupation, Sayyed Safieddine said.
The martyred leader “did not leave the battlefields and wars, he was born brave, grew up as a knight, fought as a steadfast fighter, and joined his martyred loved ones” in the end.
