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Nasrallah Says Gaza Triumphed through 'Resistance Logic,' Vows to Maintain Support

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah pledged on Friday to do everything his party perceives as a “duty” to help the Palestinian resistance in the face of Israeli atrocities, considering also that fighters in Gaza have emerged victorious from the ongoing war.

“We tell our brothers in Gaza we are with you and beside you and we will do anything that we perceive is a duty in all fields,” Nasrallah said in a speech he gave at the annual celebration of Quds Day at the Sayyed al-Shuhada complex in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Nasrallah, who appeared in person in front of cheering crowds, assured that Hizbullah and the Palestinian resistance are “real partners in struggle and in hopes.”

“Hizbullah did and will continue to stand by the Palestinian people and by the resistance in Palestine. Hizbullah did not spare any support for the resistance,” he said, adding that "Iran and Syria have also endorsed the resistance in Palestine for years with all available media, financial and logistical means.”

But the Shiite leader also called for Arab support for fighters battling Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories.

"We call on Arab and Islamic nations to endorse lifting the siege (imposed on the Gaza Strip) because it contributes to daily Palestinian deaths...and we urge political, moral and financial support until a decision is reached to arm the resistance,” he noted.

Nasrallah explained: “Gaza, with all its blood, human remains, and victories, must be above all considerations, all calculations and all sensitivities...Our responsibility towards this crucial event remains putting all differences, sensitivities, and problems aside to approach the Gaza case as a people and a resistance's cause.”

Hizbullah's leader considered that the Palestinian resistance can emerge victorious from the ongoing bloody war, hailing the fighters' achievements and pointing out at the same time to the Israeli military's shortcomings.

“When we reach day 18 of the war amid Israeli and international failures to achieve goals in Gaza, this means the (Palestinian) resistance has triumphed. Gaza, while burying its martyrs, has triumphed through the logic of the resistance and will triumph in the future,” he confidently stated.

"What does it mean when the resistance rejects a ceasefire and Israel rushes to accept it?” he noted.

Nasrallah then went on to list the points of strength that supported the Palestinian resistance in its current battle against Israel, and these included the insistence on lifting the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, resilience and “greatness” in the battlefield, taking initiatives in the battlefield, firing rockets towards Israel and targeting unprecedented sites.

"Great trust” in God and in the resistance, people's resilience and their support to fighters, as well as the rejection of regional and international pressures which was manifested in political resilience also contributed to the Palestinian fighters' achievements, he said.

Meanwhile, Israel was confused in deciding on the war's objectives, its intelligence failed in determining the capacity of the Palestinian resistance and the location of the hidden rockets and of fighters, and its air force failed in the battle, according to the Hizbullah leader, who considered this last point “an important thing for Gaza and for Lebanon.”

Nasrallah remarked that “it is not easy for (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu to credit the resistance for this achievement.”

“And I am sure some Arab leaders are telling him to continue but at the end the resistance will impose a solution on Israelis,” he said.

“Israelis will eventually realize that they cannot continue as such, and they will call on the Americans to look for a solution,” he added.

S.D.B.

Y.R.

Source: Naharnet


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