The pro-Iranian Hezbollah chief vowed on Thursday to avenge the Israeli assassination of the movement’s top commander, Fuad Shukr, with an imminent retaliatory attack on Israel.
“Our response is coming,” Hassan Nasrallah said during the funeral of Fuad Shukr, the group’s top military commander and the head its operations in southern Lebanon.
He stressed that Israel and those behind it must âinevitably wait for our next response,â stressing that âthere is no discussion or debate about this,â and reiterating that âbetween us and you are the days, the nights, and the battlefield.â
He added that they are looking for “a real response and real opportunity.”
Israel’s military killed Shukr on Tuesday evening. A few hours later, the leader of the Palestinian Islamist militant Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an attack in the Iranian capital Tehran.
Since then, there have been fears of a potentially large, coordinated attack on Israel by Iran, Hezbollah and other allied militias in the region.
“We are in an open battle on all fronts that has entered a new phase,â said the Hezbollah secretary general via a video link message at the Shukr’s funeral in Beirut.
Nasrallah said the killing of Haniyeh in Tehran was an âattack on Iranâs honor.â
Nasrallah said he had been in constant contact with Shukr, who trained most of Hezbollah’s commanders and was a “pillar” of the militia, before his death.
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