BEIRUT (Dispatches) --
Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on Friday warned that all options are on the table against Israel, urging the Zionist regime to immediately stop its aggression against Palestinians in Gaza.
Speaking in a televised speech, Nasrallah said Hezbollah is ready for all possibilities as thousands of people waving Hezbollah and Palestinian flags gathered in south and east Lebanon for his first public speech since the beginning of the Hamas-Israel war broke out on Oct. 7.
“Our Lebanese front is open to all possibilities,” he said, adding, “We should all be ready and prepared for all possibilities and scenarios to come.”
His speech came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Occupied Palestine for a third visit since the war started.
Nasrallah warned the United States over its involvement in the conflict, and said the U.S. threats do not intimidate Hezbollah.
“We received messages that the U.S. will bomb Lebanon and even Iran if we continue our operations in southern Lebanon. We tell them, ’Your warships in the Eastern Mediterranean do not scare us and never scared us before,’” he said.
Commenting on the Lebanese situation, Nasrallah said the movement entered the battle on Oct. 8, one day after Hamas’ attack.
He addressed those expecting an all-out war with Israel, saying, “For those who are asking Hezbollah to engage in open warfare, what is happening on the border may appear moderate, but that is not the case. And we will not be content with this.”
He added, “The operations on the border have led to a state of fear and panic among the [Israeli] and American leaderships that the front will head toward further escalation or lead to a large-scale war. This is a realistic possibility that could happen, and the enemy must take it into serious consideration.”
Nasrallah said that Hezbollah’s actions had forced Israel to deploy forces along the Lebanese border instead of Gaza.
Nasrallah said the United States is directly involved in the war in Gaza and responsible for the “massacres” being carried out in the Palestinian territory and elsewhere in the region over the past years. This is why, he continued, the Iraqi “Islamic resistance” made the “wise” decision to attack U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria.
He accused global institutions including the UN Security Council, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League and the European Union of not “moving a finger” to help the Palestinians despite the historic occupation of the Palestinian territories by Israel and the violence that has come with it.
Nasrallah said the situation in the Palestinian territories has been extremely difficult in light of the actions taken by the current Israeli regime, which he described as “extremist.”
The Hezbollah chief said whoever wants to prevent a regional war, must quickly stop the Israeli aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
He warned the United States that preventing a regional war depended on stopping Israeli atrocities, saying there was a real possibility of fighting on the Lebanese front turning into a “wider war”.
“You, the Americans, can stop the aggression against Gaza because it is your aggression. Whoever wants to prevent a regional war, and I am talking to the Americans, must quickly halt the aggression on Gaza,” Nasrallah said.
“You, the Americans, know very well that if war breaks out in the region, your fleets will be of no use, nor will fighting from the air be of any benefit,

and the one who will pay the price will be... your interests, your soldiers and your fleets,” he said.
Nasrallah also said Hezbollah’s operations against Israel are significant and unprecedented in history. So far, 57 Hezbollah fighters have been martyred, he added.
The Hezbollah chief denied that Hezbollah had no knowledge of the Oct. 7 operation by Hamas that killed 1,400 Zionists.
It was “100% Palestinian in terms of decision and execution,” Nasrallah said, responding to claims that the Lebanese movement had a hand in the operation.
“Even the Palestinians had kept it secret even from their fellow Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza, let alone other resistance factions across the resistance axis,” Nasrallah added.
He said the events in Gaza and the scenes of women and children being pulled from under rubble are exposing the false claims circulated by international media that Israel is a democratic state and a state of law, hiding the reality of “this barbaric Israeli entity.”