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The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has praised Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel, but said his movement had not been involved in carrying it out.
In a televised address, his first comments since the massacres and Israel’s subsequent war against Hamas, Nasrallah claimed that “brothers from Hamas” had planned the attacks alone.
In praise of the attack, in which 1,400 mostly civilians were murdered, Nasrallah stated that they had exposed Israel’s weakness. He described the incursion into Israel as an “earthquake.”
Nasrallah said the attacks against Israel had been “100% Palestinian” and that “its owners hid it from everyone.” However, Nasrallah added that the secrecy of the operation did not upset anyone in the regional “axis” against Israel.
Lebanon-based Hezbollah is backed by Iran and aligned with Hamas, as are Iranian-backed Shi’ite Muslim factions in Iraq and Yemen’s Houthi movement.
“This battle is completely Palestinian, for Palestinian people, has no relation to any regional issue,” said Nasrallah.
Nasrallah also thanked Iraqi and Yemeni groups for joining in the conflict with Israel, which Nasrallah said had spread to “more than one front.”
Celebratory gunshots rang out in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, as thousands of people packed into a square in the city’s southern suburbs to watch the pre-recorded speech on Friday afternoon.
Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Shiite political party and militant group in Lebanon. Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by the US, Germany, and several Sunni Arab countries. The EU lists its armed wing as a terrorist group.
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