Hezbollah’s response to the assassination of Fuad Shukr’s top commander was delayed for various reasons, such as the massive military mobilization by Israel and the US, while the situation will be assessed and if the results are not satisfactory, there will be another response.

This was the first statement by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech, translated by the Reuters news agency.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah announced his party had targeted an Israeli military intelligence base 110km inside Israeli territory and 1.5km from Tel Aviv as part of the wide-scale attack launched this morning against Israel.

The “main target of the operation” was “the Gillot base,” the largest Israeli military intelligence base, 110 km from the border, Hassan Nasrallah said during a televised address.

Israel’s claims are false

Hezbollah’s leader denied Israel’s “false claims” that its army today destroyed “thousands of rocket launch pads” in Lebanon and “intercepted thousands of rockets”.

“Statements that the resistance was going to launch 8,000 or 6,000 rockets and drones and that (Israel, p.s.) prevented it are false claims,” ​​Hassan Nasrallah said, adding that only “dozens of ramps were destroyed”. Hezbollah announced this morning that it fired hundreds of drones and rockets at Israel.

We did not target urban areas or Israeli infrastructure – This is not out of the question in the future though

Nasrallah also said the Shiite group had decided not to respond to the killing of its top commander. targeting urban areas or Israeli infrastructure.

We wanted to target military installations near Tel Aviv. We decided to target an army intelligence base where an Israeli surveillance unit operates. We sent Katyusha rockets to distract the Iron Dome and other air defense systems so that the drones could penetrate Israeli airspace, Nasrallah said.

For the first time we sent drones into Israel from the Bekaa region. We launched drones from both the south and north of the Litani River. Hezbollah had no plans to hit targets in Tel Aviv, including Ben Gurion Airport and the Israeli Defense Ministry. We had no intention of using precision missiles today, but we might use them in the near future, he added.

If the results are not satisfactory, we will reply another time

None of our strategic precision missiles were damaged in the Israeli strikes. The Israeli army started airstrikes against Lebanon 30 minutes before our operation, but the areas targeted had nothing to do with the operation. Our military operation was completed as planned, precisely. We will evaluate the impact of today’s operation, if the results are not satisfactory, we will respond another time, Nasrallah stressed.