Hamas 'highly appreciates' Hezbollah support after Nasrallah's speech

Hamas says it "highly appreciates" Hezbollah's support after the Lebanese resistance group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed to keep fighting Israel until a ceasefire has been reached in Gaza.

The Palestinian resistance group said Nasrallah's stance frustrated "plans to undermine the support front of our people and resistance in the Gaza Strip" with deadly communications device explosions in Lebanon.

Speaking Thursday, Nasrallah pledged that Hezbollah's operations against Israel would continue after pager and walkie-talkie explosions by Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday which killed 37 people in Lebanon. 

"In the name of the martyrs, the wounded, the ones who lost their eyes and palms, and in the name of every person who has taken on the responsibility of supporting Gaza, we tell Netanyahu and Gallant: the Lebanese front will not stop until the war on Gaza ends," he said, referring to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant. 

Since October 7 when Hamas carried out the landmark Operation Al-Aqsa Storm inside Israeli-occupied territories, Hezbollah has engaged in near-daily cross-border skirmishes with Israeli forces in a show of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

On Thursday, the Israeli military confirmed that at least two of its soldiers have been killed and several others injured in fresh attacks carried out by Hezbollah.

The causalities came after Hezbollah targeted Israeli military sites in the northeastern part of the occupied Palestinian territories on Thursday.

In a statement, the Israeli military named dead soldiers, saying reservist Major Nael Fwarsy, 43, and Sergeant Tomer Keren, 20, “fell in combat” in separate incidents.

According to Israel’s N12 News, one of them was killed by a drone and the other by an antitank missile fired by Hezbollah across the Lebanese border. More than a dozen were also wounded in the strikes.

Israeli fire services were also working to extinguish several fires following the attacks.

Hezbollah earlier said that it had hit the al-Marj military installation near the Lebanese border with the occupied lands with “appropriate weapons” and caused “a number of deaths and injuries” among the Israeli forces. 

Hezbollah also emphasized that the strikes came in support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and their resistance.

The latest retaliatory strikes by the Lebanese resistance group came after the Israeli regime’s military hit several Lebanese towns with phosphorus bombs.

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