Hamas says Hezbollah’s retaliation against Israeli assassinations in Lebanon ‘definite’

A spokesman for the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement in Lebanon warned Israel that Hezbollah will “definitely” retaliate against the occupying regime over its assassinations of resistance figures in the Arab country.

According to Walid Kilani, the fellow Hezbollah group will decide on the scope and manner of the retaliation.

“The Zionist regime will receive a definite and decisive response for its crimes and assassination attacks. The extent and approach depends on Hezbollah’s decision. Hamas stands by the side of the Lebanese resistance movement,” Kilani said on Sunday.

He added that “there is a high level of coordination among Hamas, Hezbollah and other forces of the Axis of Resistance.”

Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander and an advisor to the movement’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, was assassinated in an Israeli strike against a building in a suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut on July 30.

The attack was followed by the regime’s assassination of Hamas leader Samer al-Hajj and his companion in an airstrike on their car in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on August 9.

Lebanon parliament speaker: Definite response awaits Israel

Nabih Berri, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, also warned that Israel must await a definite response.

“With warmonger Benjamin Netanyahu serving as the prime minister of the Zionist regime, expansion of tensions is inevitable as he is seeking to drag anyone into war.

“Unlike Israel, the Axis of Resistance is fighting intelligently and calculatedly, and Hezbollah only targets military installations as retaliation,” he said.

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Commenting on the recent Israeli assassinations and the resistance front’s pledge of retaliation, Berri said “The revenge that Israel has been anxiously awaiting over the past few days is definite, and the enemy cannot escape it.”

The top Lebanese lawmaker also denounced the Israeli strike against the al-Tabin school in Gaza City’s al-Daraj neighborhood, killing more than 100 displaced Palestinians and wounding dozens of others on Saturday.

“The Zionist regime’s prime minister first assassinated the Palestinian political leader [Ismail Haniyeh] and then massacred his people. Does someone who seeks to reach a truce behave in such a manner?

“What negotiations are they talking about while they don’t stop bloodshed?” Berri said.

According to Berri, the Israeli attack on displaced families at the al-Tabin was Netanyahu’s response to the recent tripartite statement by the United States, Qatar, and Egypt, which called for the resumption of negotiations to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and the release of prisoners and captives.

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