Israel in ‘Worst Shape’, to Go Back to ‘Stone Age’ in Case of War with Lebanon: Nasrallah
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks while addressing the Lebanese people and the supporters of the Resistance on the 17th anniversary of Lebanon's victory over the Israeli occupation in the 2006 July War, on Monday night.
The Hezbollah leader, responding to the Israeli threats about "returning Lebanon to the stone age" in any war against the country following weeks of border tensions, a threat last made by Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant last week, said the Israeli occupation "will also go back to the stone age" if it attacks Lebanon.
The Axis of Resistance today has the initiative to a great extent as the Israeli occupation shields itself behind the walls, he stressed. "The enemy can calculate how many precision missiles the Resistance needs to strike its critical infrastructure," he said, Al-Mayadeen reported.
He also cautioned that if the battle with the Axis of Resistance escalated into a full-blown confrontation, "there will this thing called 'Israel' will cease to exist."
"The enemy went from being on the offensive to being on the defense while the Israeli army today is at its worst shape in history," he said.
The Israeli occupation forces, he highlighted, suffer from a weak fighting spirit and a lack of willingness to combat, and the failed attempt at a raid in Gaza is a prime example of that.
The July 2006 war, waged by the Israeli occupation forces against Lebanon following Operation Truthful Promise in which Hezbollah succeeded in capturing two Israeli soldiers in a high-profile operation on the Lebanese-occupied Palestinian occupied border on July 12, 2006. The Israeli occupation referred to it as the "Second Lebanon War."
The war was waged to destroy Hezbollah's power and occupy wide parts of Lebanon, but it failed to do so after the Lebanese resistance successfully confronted it and inflicted significant losses on the attacking forces, both on the frontlines and domestically.
The war ended after 33 days of fighting, without the Israeli forces managing to occupy any Lebanese territory. They faced precision strikes on land, sea, and air, as well as rocket barrages that resulted in dozens of casualties among settlers and reached the southern parts of Haifa.
The Israeli occupation forces suffered around 150 casualties, mostly from elite forces, in addition to hundreds of injuries and substantial losses in tanks and military capabilities.
Source: Agencies
