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Israel `failed` in Gaza and will negotiate, says Hezbollah chief

2024-01-15
BEIRUT: The head of Hezbollah movement said on Sunday that Israel had failed to achieve its objectives in Gaza and this will force it to negotiate.

`What has the enemy achieved in 100 days, other than 1(illing?` Hassan Nasrallah aslced in a televised speech.

`It has not achieved any real victory or semblance of victory. It has failed in achieving its declared, half-declared and implicit objectives,` he added, on the 100th day ofthe Israeliaggression.

Nasrallah`s speech commemorated the death of a senior Hezbollah commander, Wissam Tawil, killed by Israel in southern Lebanon on January 8. `If this path continues, be it in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen or Iraq, the enemy government will have no other choice but to accept the conditions of the resistance in Gaza, thereby putting an end to the aggression against Gaza and entering into negotiations,` said Nasrallah.

The Hezbollah leader also denounced air strikes by the US and Britain, which on Friday hit scores of rebel targets in Yemen in response to the Houthis` attacks onshipping.

`What the Americans did in the Red Sea will harm the security of all maritime navigation,` Nasrallah said.

In more than three months of violence on the Israel-Lebanon border, 190 people have been killed in Lebanon, including 141 Hezbollah fighters and more than 20 civilians, according to a tally.

On Sunday, Israeli authorities announced that two Israelis had been killed by a missile fired from Lebanon that hit a house near the border.

Israel`s military also said it killed three gunmen who had crossed the frontier and `fired at the forces`.-AFP