BEIRUT (Dispatches) – Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says any Israeli aggression on the holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem Al-Quds would lead to a regional war, in his first comments after a ceasefire ended the Zionist regime’s 11-day military aggression against Gaza.
“When holy sites face serious threats there are no red lines,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech marking the anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon after 21 years of occupation.
“The occupation must understand that violating the holy city and Al-Aqsa Mosque and sanctuaries will not stop at Gaza. The equation we must reach is that breaching Al-Quds means a regional war,” he said.
The occupying regime of Israel launched its bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza Strip on 10 May after Zionist attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque and the violent crackdown on Palestinians protesting the imminent forced expulsion of four families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah’s neighborhood in occupied East Al-Quds prompted retaliatory rocket from resistance fighters in Gaza.
Nasrallah said the latest war between the resistance and the Zionist regime has shown that the Palestinian movement has greatly advanced its rocket capabilities, which he said is a major military achievement.
“They had the ability to launch rockets for 11 days and they could continue,” he said.
A ceasefire came into effect on Friday after the Zionist regime unilaterally announced stopping its aggression which martyred at least 253 Palestinians, including 66 children, and caused widespread destruction. Retaliatory rockets fired from the enclave also killed 13 Zionists.

In the occupied West Bank and East Al-Quds, 29 Palestinians were martyred by Israeli forces.
The occupying regime’s army chief Lieutenant-General Aviv Kochavi, who had threatened Gaza with ground operations, “was powerless and defeated in the face of besieged Gaza and locally-made rockets”, Nasrallah said, warning the Zionist regime against any miscalculations in Lebanon.
He said, “Gaza surprised both friends and foes, to be honest.”
“What Gaza did was a qualitative historical step in the history of the conflict with the Israeli enemy, and it should be highly valued. The people of Gaza and the resistance were in a position to defend and sacrifice themselves for Al-Quds, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the sanctities of the nation,” the Hezbollah chief underlined.
Tensions remain high in Occupied Palestine, Al-Quds and the West Bank.
On Tuesday, 91 settlers broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex flanked by Zionist forces. A day earlier, Israeli forces launched an operation of mass arrests of Palestinians involved in protests against settlement expansion policies in East Al-Quds and the bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
An Islamic Jihad official told Press TV Wednesday that the resistance has managed to revive support for the Palestinian cause on the international stage, adding that “the Zionist dream is collapsing”.
“We revived the Palestinian cause.... and this cause cannot be erased,” Islamic Jihad representative, Nasser Abu-Sharif, told the network in an interview.
Abu-Sharif said the resistance front delivered a “crushing response” to the latest Israeli aggression, calling this “a great victory” that should be celebrated. “We tarnished the image of the Israeli army,” he hailed.