Hezbollah: Fighting in North Stops the Minute There's a Gaza Deal
U.S. has tried to push Israeli propaganda that it is Lebanon group that is escalating
Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, announced Wednesday that the fighting between Israel and his group in the north will stop immediately once there is a ceasefire deal in Gaza — which has been the policy but hidden by the Biden administration so the public sympathizes with Israel.
“Hamas is negotiating on its own behalf and on behalf of the Palestinian factions, and also on behalf of the entire Axis of Resistance. What Hamas accepts, we all accept,” he said, according to Reuters. He continued, “If there is a ceasefire in Gaza then our front will also ceasefire without discussion, irrespective of any other agreement or mechanisms or negotiations.”
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told an audience at the Brookings Institution on earlier this month that there is “momentum” building up for an all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel, according to a report.
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Blinken was met by protesters outside the event accusing him of supporting the genocide in Gaza. Some protesters could be heard shouting, “Bloody Blinken,” and “Secretary of Genocide.”
The U.S.’s top diplomat lamented in front of the audience that Israel has lost its sovereignty in the north because of strikes from Hezbollah, which has said it will end the fighting when Israeli forces stop the genocide in Gaza—a note that the Biden administration does not like to mention.
Blinken told the audience that the fighting in the north is tied to Gaza, which he said underscores why it’s “clearly in the strategic interests of Israel as well to effectively bring this to a close,” according to Bloomberg.
Blinken, who Hamas called Israel’s foreign secretary, listed three outcomes that Washington would find unacceptable after Israel completes its target practice in the starved enclave.
Blinken told reporters on Monday that Washington has told the Israelis that it’d like Jerusalem to develop its own plans, but “we’ve not seen enough of that from Israel.”
He said Washington would find it unacceptable if Israel occupied Gaza, Hamas perpetuated its leadership, or left the enclave in a state of chaos.
Hezbollah and Israel have been carrying out a slow-burn war for years, but the intensity increased after the Hamas attack and the subsequent U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza.
Hezbollah has made it clear that it will continue to pound Israeli targets and make it impossible for about 60,000 Israelis to return to their homes in the occupied northern Israel as long as the genocide in Gaza continues.
TRENDPOST: Israel has not achieved its military objectives in Gaza and against Hamas, which is not even close to the lethality of Hezbollah.