“Neither Hezbollah nor any other actor, state or non-state, should seek to profit from the conflict between Israel and Hamas,” a White House National Security Council spokesman warned today.reacting to the speech of the head of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah organization of Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah.

“We will not enter into a war of words. The United States seeks neither to escalate nor to widen the conflict that Hamas launched against Israel,” the spokesman added.

“This could escalate into a bloodier war than the one in 2006 between Israel and Lebanon. The US does not want the conflict to spill over into Lebanon. The devastation that would follow for Lebanon and its people would be unimaginable, and avoidable,” he said.

Nasrallah’s speech was eagerly awaited as it would reveal whether Nasrallah drags Lebanon into the war raging in Gaza. Hezbollah fighters have intervened against Israel on the border between the two countries since the day after the war with Hamas, but without escalating their operations.

During his speech, Hezbollah leader violently attacked the US while US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was visiting Israel.

“We are ready to face your fleet, with which you threaten us,” he declared.

He accused the United States of being “wholly responsible for the war raging in Gaza”, considering that “Israel is nothing more than an instrument”.

On the Lebanese front, Nasrallah stated that “we entered the battle from October 8.”

He estimated that “all options” are on the table and that the possibility of “total war” is “realistic”.