Hezbollah, warning to Israel: aggression against the Resistance will be the end of the entity

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said any act of Israeli aggression against the resistance front could lead to a major war in the region, resulting in the "annihilation" of the Tel Aviv regime.

The leader of the Lebanese resistance movement said in a televised speech on Thursday marking the anniversary of the withdrawal of the Zionist regime from southern Lebanon. The Israeli regime withdrew its forces from Lebanese areas on May 25, 2000, after 22 years of occupation, after suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of the resistance movement. Addressing Tel Aviv's threats of large-scale military action, Nasrallah said, "You cannot threaten us with large-scale war. It is rather we, who are threatening you with such war."

"The battlefields in this war will be filled with hundreds of thousands of [resistance] fighters," since the resistance has conscripted far more forces than the occupation regime, the Hezbollah leader said. "The resistance is expanding day by day and has seen a big [positive] change in its financial and military capacity," he added. The Israelis have failed to strengthen their power of deterrence and have realized that they must pay dearly for any act of aggression, Nasrallah noted.